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...they should consider loosening their standards of whether a course is, say, analytical enough to meet a Core requirement. In the mean time, professors should consider making minor adjustments their curricula so as to be consistent with the logistical requirements of Core courses, which include that courses have midterm and final examinations. (We humbly remind professors who prefer to give a final paper that a final exam need not be a three-hour examination; in our book, a brief unit test would suffice, too.)The effects of more departmental courses that are cross-listed as Core courses will...
...done. But to succeed, they need to resist as long as possible the forces that make Administrations irrelevant. "Some people in the White House are worried that this will hasten the start of the formal lame-duck period, which they were hoping to put off until after the midterm elections," said a Republican official. "This showed a weakened President and a Vice President in a bubble within a bubble." The minute the November midterms are over, attention will turn even faster than usual to the 2008 presidential and vice-presidential race, because some states are holding their primaries earlier...
...things that distinguishes this group from last semesters’ is that we have a significant international component,” said Shaheen. The fellows feature former CBS News senior political editor Dotty Lynch, who will be conducting a study group on the 2006 midterm elections, and former Cleveland mayor Jane L. Campbell, who will lead a group called “Voices and Choices,” which will examine race, gender, and economic stress in urban government. From abroad, the current Iraqi minister of municipalities and public works, Nesreen Barwari—who arrived in the U.S. yesterday?...
...consternation of economics concentrators writing senior theses, four economics classes have midterms on or near the thesis due date of March 16. Economics 1051, “Game Theory in Economics,” and Economics 1661, “Environmental and Resource Economics and Policy,” have midterms on March 16. Economics 1420, “American Economic Policy,” and Economics 1530, “International Monetary Economics,” have scheduled their exams for March 17. Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Economics and Senior Lecturer Jeffery Wolcowitz said that the department...
Ohio Republican John Boehner's upset victory today in the race to replace Tom DeLay as House Republican majority leader is a perfect reflection of the GOP's current quandary-the party recognizes the need for real reform ahead of midterm elections next fall, but also fears too much of it. After all, for Capitol Hill, where incumbency usually rules the day, Boehner's second-round win by a margin of 122-109 against front-runner and current Majority Whip Roy Blunt of Missouri for the party's number two spot amounted to storming the Bastille. "Boehner looked as shocked...