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Though no sweeping changes have yet been put before the Faculty, signs point to study abroad reform as a distinct possibility in the near future. University President Lawrence H. Summers has repeatedly expressed interest in making study abroad more accessible, and Lewis has suggested that encouraging more students to study abroad might ease overcrowding in Harvard’s 12 upperclass Houses...
Despite the unanimous vote, many Faculty expressed hope that the cut was just a first step toward a more comprehensive reform of the Core, which is scheduled for a review next year...
...good news is that most of us will never find ourselves in quite the medical crisis the John Q. family does. In the movie, which was written in 1993, during the Clinton health-care-reform battle, the parents are told that a heart transplant costs $250,000, that their insurance doesn't cover it and that they're required to post a $75,000 deposit or their sick son will be sent packing. While it's true that hospitals expect to be reimbursed for services provided to even the neediest and most grievously ill patients, it's not true that...
Peacekeeping is one of them. "The Americans," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London, "hate peacekeeping, and they're not very good at it." Many European armed forces, by contrast, are now structured with peacekeeping as their primary mission. In Bosnia, says Grant, American forces will not walk down a street unprotected, while British and French soldiers soak up information in cafes. Unsurprisingly, it is Europeans who shoulder the burden of keeping the peace in Kosovo, Bosnia and now Kabul. But suggest to European policymakers that their primary military role should be mopping up after...
...into his own as a leader, advocating change, albeit slowly, in this most conservative of countries. During two days of meetings with TIME, which included rare visits to his private office, home and horse farm, Abdullah, 78, acknowledged many of Saudi Arabia's ills and discussed his plans for reform. "We have gone through shock and denial," says a Saudi official. "Now we're asking, 'Do we need to change...