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...recent report on the Harvard College Curricular Review reaffirms our commitment to a liberal education in the arts and sciences and outlines a curriculum in which students have greater freedom to shape their educations. While many of the recommendations represent new formats, opportunities and commitments, they bring together and recast many of the changes that were already being developed in the concentrations and in FAS at large: commitment to international education, growing emphasis on the sciences, opportunities for interdisciplinary work and more venues for students to work closely with faculty in small groups...
...course he does: he’s recast his image from the “bull in a China shop” of the Cornel West era to the educational visionary of today, gaining publicity and shedding critics along...
...alliance: an Iraq that descends further into anarchy and instability. An aide to French President Jacques Chirac flatly says if "things continue to go badly or go worse, it will have serious consequences for the entire western world." But French officials fear that unless the security presence is recast to shed its occupation image, any foreign troops will be resisted. Spain has withdrawn its troops, and Poland may leave next year. But if--a big if--the coalition can manage to restore stability, The Europeans may then be prepared to help. Germany, which wants a seat on the U.N. Security...
...administration doesn’t seem to realize that the opportunity for avoiding catastrophe in Iraq has all but slipped away in the face of its unwillingness to recast its strategy. Does it not comprehend the mess it’s in? Or is it paralyzed by the recognition of its predicament, lured by the conceit that any reality can be twisted into political advantage, or busied with planning for some other move we don’t know about? The situation may already be unrecoverable, even if the U.S. acts boldly and quickly. But without a final attempt...
...only did we lack the means, since everything we had of value was God's to begin with, but also we lacked the standing, like a lowly serf helpless to erase an injury to a great lord. Eternal damnation seemed unavoidable, except for a miracle of grace. God "recast" himself into human form so that Christ, who was both innocent of sin and also God's social equal, could suffer the Crucifixion's undeserved agony, dedicating it to the Father on humanity's behalf. Christ "paid for sinners what he owed not for himself," wrote Anselm reverently. "Could the Father...