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Similarly, to earn a foreign language citation, a student must take four-half courses above the first-year level, at least two of which must be third-year level or beyond. Yet even a citation does not entitle students to Foreign Cultures credit, for which they can petition only after...
Further inconsistencies can be found throughout the Core. Unfortunately, these problems have not been addressed, and the petition process has become more rather than less arbitrary in recent years. Students who entered the college before Sept. 1999 were given greater flexibility with respect to exemptions from the Science A and...
The petition process does not provide students with the flexibility necessary for intellectual exploration. Rather, it reinforces the idiosyncrasies of a Core Program that corrals students into a few substandard courses without providing them a broad-based liberal arts education.
By Thanksgiving 2000, Quinn had started a new game. During a meeting at the Justice Department on Nov. 21, he notified Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder of his plan to file a pardon petition with the White House. He asked Holder if he wanted a copy. Holder, who assumed that...
Some of the institutions that wrote letters, from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., to Sha'are Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, had no idea what they would be used for. Avner Azoulay, a former Mossad operative who runs the Rich Foundation in Tel Aviv, had asked them to write appreciations...