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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Ressam's story broke, Canada's opposition party immediately questioned the country's immigration policies. Prime Minister Jean Chretien defended the policies but wouldn't stand behind the Montreal police's enforcement. Red-faced, the police on Saturday set out on a so-far fruitless search to recapture the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heat's on Canada to Crack Terror Cell | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

At Harvard, these crusty Eurocentrists finger Foreign Cultures and its thriving colonies in Historical Studies and Literature and Arts. Harvard students need not read Plato, Shakespeare or Locke to graduate--in fact, chances are they won't. As the Goths conquered Rome, they say, so multiculturalism has sacked Harvard's...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Core Classes Lack Depth | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

The real problem with Harvard's curriculum, though, is not that the Core is too foreign; rather, it is entirely too familiar. So many Core courses deal with the present or recent past--"The Warren Court" in Historical Studies B and "Industrial East Asia" in Foreign Cultures, for instance--that...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Core Classes Lack Depth | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

Especially when, as in Justice, one spends such little time on each great philosopher, the best of whom ought to command an eternity of study. It is simply impossible to understand, or even appreciate, a great thinker in one week--if you can, chances are he's not a great...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Core Classes Lack Depth | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

Worst of all, when exposed only to simplified and modernized tidbits of philosophy, students can begin to take philosophy itself for granted. If one can easily approach and understand Kant and Aristotle, and one need only look to them to inform contemporary disputes, they become decidedly less lovely. And if...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: Core Classes Lack Depth | 12/21/1999 | See Source »

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