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...Iraq. "I'm going to work hard," Bush replied. "I'm going to sprint to the finish." The President wanted it known that he's not sweating his legacy. "I'm reading about George Washington, still," he joked. "My attitude is, if they're still analyzing No. 1, 43 ought not to worry about it and just do what he thinks is right." At the same time, he's hoping to pull off a Bush...
...favor of calendar reform. While then we criticized the proposal on this page, one too many January chills have changed our minds, and, we hope, will change Harvard’s mind as well in the very near future. Institutionally stubborn though it may be, Harvard ought to scrap the current calendar once and for all, moving reading period, final papers, and final exams before winter vacation. A winter break of less than two weeks is simply not enough to rejuvenate the student body after a grueling semester of cram sessions, all-nighters, and extracurricular meetings. Life at Harvard...
...this ought to be very good news for the bears. What puzzles - and worries - some enviros is why the Administration folded its cards so easily on this one. For a White House that was willing to battle all the way to the Supreme Court to keep Congressional and other eyes off the proceedings of Vice President Cheney's energy task force, walking away from a fight with three private advocacy groups seemed uncharacteristically timid, particularly since the Administration could just run out the clock until January...
...Unfortunately, the task force seems to have forgotten that education is about more than just amassing useful facts. While facts will help students be successful and participate in democracy, a truly liberal education ought to address deeper questions. In that sense, the task force’s real-world citizenship rationale only goes so far. It does not provoke us to think deeply about why we ought to be good citizens, parents, lawyers, artists, or, for that matter, anything...
...Harvard education, however, can and should be so much more than pragmatic. At its core, a liberal arts education ought to ask the why questions that lie buried at the heart of a university, giving direction and purpose to the human quest for knowledge. The original report nodded in this direction by noting that many Harvard students are religious, and often struggle to sort out what they believe. The task force’s latest idea—a vaguely-stated “what it means to be a human being” requirement—seems...