Word: moderns
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Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis said the Core requires anthropology concentrators to take Foreign Cultures because none of the concentrators study modern foreign cultures and some do not study foreign cultures...
...cursory glance at the Core curriculum reveals Harvard's priorities--priorities that reflect the modern academic environment. Harvard requires its students to take courses in foreign language and foreign cultures--both worthy requirements-but fails to require any study of the United States. It is entirely possible to acquire a Harvard degree without giving a moment's study to America. This sort of purposeful exclusion of American studies is duplicated at universities across the country...
...Germany was Helmut Kohl's greatest triumph; it may also have been his undoing. The voters of the former East Germany, embittered by rampant unemployment and economic stagnation, appear to have tipped the balance in the landmark election Sunday that ousted a sitting chancellor for the first time in modern German history. Gerhard Schroeder, a 56-year-old Social Democrat who had retooled his party along the centrist "Third Way" lines championed by Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, soundly defeated Kohl in the hard-fought election. But he won't find it easy to make good on promises to give...
...could have sent this to you?" Dad queried. He couldn't believe that the letter was for me, and for real. But it proved to be authentic; it even bore the signature of Horace Deets, the Executive Director. Horace offered me Modern Maturity, a "handsome, helpful magazine [that] brings you hours of enjoyable reading," employment guides, seminars, AARP pharmacy service and travel benefits, among other delights. (Thanks to direct mailings like these, Modern Maturity is actually the largest circulation magazine in the United States.) Oh, and how could I forget? I also received my very own membership identification code, along...
Those working on the change say the multi-million dollar overhaul will result in a more modern and accessible library...