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Exhaustion from four years of meetings and reports could prompt faculty to retreat into comfortably established classroom routines. Yet we must not presume that President-elect Drew G. Faust and her incoming deans can implement complex changes on their own. Genuine improvements in advising, course offerings, and pedagogy require ongoing faculty commitment. Each step of the way, faculty and administrators must articulate clear goals and plan wisely for how (and how not) to proceed. Here are some principles and caveats to keep in mind...

Author: By Theda Skocpol | Title: The Challenge of True Curricular Reform | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...will consist of three themed segments: “Chinatowns,” “The Golden Ghetto,” and “East Meets West.” In addition, the show will feature a spring/summer fashion preview, a showcase of student designs answering the prompt “What does ‘identity’ mean to you?,” and several performance pieces, all incorporating video and music.“We want to show something beyond stereotypes, that there are lots of distinctive communities,” Lee says...

Author: By Alexandra A Mushegian, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: A Model Minority: ‘Identities’ Takes Runway | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...every aspect of the campaign is so easy to master. Franken walks into a precinct meeting and has already begun his 60-second stump speech when the audience's slightly puzzled expressions prompt him to ask, "Have I interrupted the process?" A beat of silence. "That's O.K.," someone says. Slightly rattled, Franken ends quickly. I'm not sure if he hears it when someone calls, "Yeah, who are you?" Fortunately, someone else answers for him: "That was Al Franken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Laugh at Al Franken | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...that a Wisconsin law forbidding incest among blood relations (but not including step-relations) did not conflict with Lawrence's ruling. But in upholding prison sentences for a brother-sister couple in that case, the court acknowledged that the language in Lawrence is all but certain to prompt more challenges to prosecutions for sex-related crimes on privacy grounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Incest Be Legal? | 4/5/2007 | See Source »

...brought to Fiji to work on plantations in the 1930s), argued that more than 40 years ago they were given permission by the chiefs to live on the land. Fiji High Court Justice Roger Coventry ruled the squatters could remain for the time being. Lingham says the decision may prompt thousands of squatters to refuse to move off private and government land. But landowners say they will not retreat. The Bhindi Brothers property company owns dozens of hectares in the Kumars' settlement. While they have tolerated squatters for years, a $20 million development is now planned for the area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wrong Side of Paradise | 3/29/2007 | See Source »

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