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...provide a balanced view on Iraq that offsets the stereotypes and simplifications peddled in the media. It is the task of Iraqi educational institutions to elaborate a national discourse that neither belittles any of its constituent groups, nor threatens national unity. Through the knowledge that they create, they must project a varied and accurate image of Iraq both to Iraqis and to the outside world. They must also play the primary role in opening Iraq to new knowledge from outside...
Writing a thesis is often billed as the capstone undergraduate experience, a long-term project meant to top off four years of study and allow students to try their hand at a chosen discipline...
...teaches an intensity of intellectual focus,” said Peter B. Machinist ’66, director of undergraduate studies for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, who wrote an undergraduate thesis himself. “It allows you to see what it means to take on a project that has some heft to it. This is a kind of skill that will serve you all your life...
However, vigorous opposition from preservationists and some local residents greeted the local planning commission's preliminary approval of the project in May. The focus of their ire is the plan to develop a parcel of property in the park known as the Pawlings Farm. Some historians believe it was the location of a major supply depot used to collect cattle and other food coming to the beleaguered American army from farms up north. Critics and preservationists say the expansive development will permanently alter historically important land and set a dangerous precedent for other National Parks, many of which have similar...
There was little contentiousness in the beginning. The $100 million project began with nearly universal support from historians, lawmakers, and area residents more than a decade ago. Congress authorized the Revolution Center to build its facility adjacent to the current National Park Service Visitors Center at Valley Forge. But relations soured between the National Park Service and the Revolution Center, which said the Park Service was limiting the scale of the museum and demanding too much control. In 2006, center officials broke off negotiations with the Park Service and found the privately owned Pawling Farm site inside the park...