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...Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages of coherence and practicality. With many options for fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which students plead can be achieved. To the Faculty, we propose an armistice in these academic skirmishes: no bruised egos, no inflexible or convoluted Core-like requirements. Let us consign the Curricular Review’s hopeful, yet ultimately unworkable innovations to the dustbin of failed projects and impractical dreams. Vote down...
...bloodbath, walking the halls of the school, selecting lives to extinguish and then ... extinguishing them. It is perhaps a measure of our humanity that we could sooner imagine ourselves as the killed than as the killer, and find it easier to conjure up what it would feel like to plead for our lives than to take someone else...
...outpaces the capital. More than 200 temples-Taoist, Buddhist, Confucian-are tucked into lanes and alleys amid the high-rises, each offering its own brand of salvation. Pray for fair judgment in the afterlife at the City God Temple, where two giant abacuses tally good deeds versus bad, or plead for high exam scores at the Confucius Temple, the island's oldest. Festivals celebrating temple gods' birthdays are several-day affairs here, their likenesses paraded through the streets on palanquins, urged on by a great racket. "There's a temple to meet every need. We can solve all your problems...
...President Bush is not expected to look favorably on Lindh's latest plea for leniency - his third since striking a deal in 2002 with the Justice Department in which he agreed to plead guilty to serving as an armed member of the Taliban in exchange for avoiding a variety of other terrorism charges that had also been lodged against...
...charges against her, no matter what she says under oath. Her lawyer's letter alludes to this by mentioning that some members have already decided they were lied to by Bush Administration officials, and plan to "use the hearings to promote [their] political party." As a reason to plead the Fifth, though, "That's a new one," says Kerr. "I don't think I've ever come across that one before...