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...often as ‘Hamlet’ or ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream,’ [sic] it is widely respected and quite frequently performed,” he writes in an email. So why is there a need for a 21st-century overhaul? For the producers and director of this new adaptation, the answer is simple: the 1595 version has the substance, but not the style, to appeal to audiences today. ‘TRAGICAL-HISTORICAL’In “Hamlet,” the elderly courtier Polonius famously rattles...
...students' victory is likely to be partial for other reasons, too. The same combustible sequence of events that killed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's contested youth job bill has played out in identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé helped bring a socialist government to power...
...last students forced to commit to a concentration with only eight courses under their academic belts.The legislation, which pushes the concentration choice deadline back to the middle of sophomore year, has two major implications for the structure of students’ education.First, the move requires many departments to overhaul their year-long sophomore tutorials, forcing them to offer a fall tutorial open to all sophomores, squeeze the curriculum into one spring tutorial, or extend the tutorial program into the junior year.Second, the later deadline will likely reduce concentration requirements in most disciplines because students will spend one less semester...
...Illinois certainly has tried to do just that. Shortly after Ryan granted clemency to some and commuted all other death sentences to life in prison, the state launched a major study and overhaul of the system. At the time, about thirteen inmates on Death Row had been found innocent and freed, one more than the number who had been executed since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. New reforms adopted included an overhaul in police lineups to guard against false identifications, the videotaping of most murder confessions, some state Supreme Court oversight of capital cases to make sure they...
...reached.“Usually there is a bigger crowd when there’s controversy, and it was pretty obvious there wasn’t going to be controversy today,” Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University professor, said.With secondary fields, concentration choice delay, and life science overhaul already approved, the Faculty will tackle a more explosive question: the reform of general education at the College.The final report of the review’s Committee on General Education calls for the Core to be eliminated in favor of a broad set of distribution requirements.The report has come under...