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...Boston Globe reported this week that a draft report by a committee examining mental health issues at the renowned technology school recommended a complete overhaul of the school’s counseling services and the appointment of a new dean to oversee mental health services...
...sending him to national parks. "Every politician who gets in trouble thinks it's how they're saying things instead of what they're saying," says Paul Begala, who saw his share of trouble as an adviser to Bill Clinton. In 1994, as Clinton pressed his health-care overhaul and lurched toward a wipeout in the midterm elections, his advisers insisted it was the delivery, not the content, that was turning off the public. "Guess what? It was the content," says Begala. "So we changed. We had to." Bush's predicament is not so dire. Robert Teeter, co-author...
...preplanned walking tours but has genuine encounters with voters along the way, while cameras record the sometimes testy back-and-forth. And Fox has crisscrossed his country to rally support for his tax-reform plan, which would place new levies on food, medicine and books as part of an overhaul of the notoriously inefficient tax system. If some of this salesmanship sounds familiar, that's because Fox's communications director, Francisco Ortiz, twice visited the Clinton White House to study how the 42nd President accomplished his legislative goals. "The President has to be campaigning in order to listen...
...Changes of this magnitude have not swept HLS for 130 years, according to institutional historian and visiting HLS professor Daniel R. Coquillette. The school’s last dramatic overhaul occurred in 1871, when former Dean Christopher C. Langdell instituted the Socratic and case study methods—which would be copied by professional schools around the world?...
...tinkering around the edges with the Core curriculum is only a short-term answer; a serious and permanent overhaul is needed. A distribution requirement would serve the same purpose of exposing students to new approaches to knowledge without arbitrarily limiting their choices. Rather than pick from an ever-shrinking list of special courses, students should be allowed to choose any departmental course that involves one of the recognized approaches to knowledge. In this way, students would be exposed to many different types of thought in an equally rigorous setting without the constraints of a restrictive Core...