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...committee will consider two options for the core's overhaul. It will either form an eight-course core that would leave room for two electives in the first year, or it will create a "tracked" core that would allow students to specialize in a methodological track their second semester...
Faced with the rising anxiety over air bags, which are currently found in 50 million vehicles on U.S. roads, federal safety officials last week pulled in the rules that regulate the devices for a thorough overhaul. "Air bags are working well," says Dr. Ricardo Martinez, who heads the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "but need to be improved to enhance the safety of children and small-stature adults." Toward that end, the agency rolled out a five-part proposal for air bags that, if adopted after public hearings, would cover every passenger car and truck sold...
...Russian government must keep making tough choices and sticking with them. One example is a peaceful end to the brutal war in Chechnya. Another is an urgently needed overhaul of tax collection. The complexity and inefficiency of the current system have scared off foreign and domestic investment, and Moscow's failure to take in adequate revenues has jeopardized its eligibility for loans from the International Monetary Fund. At a more fundamental level, rampant criminality threatens to undermine the Russian people's confidence in reform and in democracy itself, and could serve as a pretext for the reimposition of stultifying state...
...community consensus or standards, students, as the majority of the Harvard community, should be included in interpreting these community standards. Therefore, the Staff would be happy to learn that the Ad Board would be consistent since we do not expect, nor are we really aiming for, a drastic ideological overhaul of the current Ad Board...
When his own party controlled ,the House in the first two years of his presidency, Clinton tried to push a massive health care overhaul through the Congress. Many voters viewed the effort as a disguised liberal strategy to tax, spend and expand...