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...that is expected to be unveiled within weeks. Previous incarnations of the committee have recommended the elimination of the Core and the creation of broad distribution requirements combined with interdisciplinary courses in general education. Knowles also appeared to be moving to address a concern for some professors under his predecessor, Geisinger Professor of History William C. Kirby, who came under fire from some department chairs for allegedly providing too little transparency in his administration’s financial decisions. “I am concerned that the Faculty share the same data, the same information, and therefore can recognize...
...said Benedict prayed privately for the victims of the attacks, noting that it is rare for popes to speak out on foreign trips about news events not related to the country being visited. But some reporters grumbled unfavorable comparisons with the shy German pontiff?s news-generating, geopolitically attuned predecessor...
...hours, guaranteeing the playback of one or two, if not three full-length features. That also means 20 hours of music. The 30GB iPod ($249) has shorter battery life-3.5 hours of video or 14 hours of music-but it manages to outperform its predecessor while being 30% thinner...
...landscape not of his making. The fractured LDP, the half-finished economic reforms, the deep divisions over Yasukuni, the uncertainty over the military's role?all these flow from the Koizumi years. But there is a role to play for the person who makes sense of what a predecessor started. Junji Higashi, a legislator with the New Komeito party who is close to Koizumi, says the outgoing Prime Minister loves to compare himself to Nobunaga Oda, the revolutionary warlord who all but conquered Japan in the 16th century and began the unification of Japan. But Higashi notes that...
...sure, the current review of undergraduate education began under Bok’s predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers; Harvard has been planning developments in Allston at least since Bok’s original term, which lasted from 1971 to 1991; and the UPCSE held its first meetings last January...