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...College. She has already recognized two major issues that will demand her immediate attention: the renewal of the Houses and the implementation of the new General Education curriculum. To this list, we might add the inconsistent quality of undergraduate education, the perennially contentious matter of social life, and reform of the Administrative Board. Real progress on these issues will require an empowered dean who knows how to forge solutions and enact progress, even on a University-wide scale. And while we are somewhat hesitant about her limited experience in undergraduate administration and College affairs, Hammonds’s experience...
...Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into the status quo over the course of decades, banning American trade, then tourism, then remittances, and finally any business exchange with foreign firms that violate Cuban alienation. In a triumph of branding, this last restriction was named the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992, on the presumption that the best...
...simple fact of Clinton family politics: they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet. They spring their leaks in calm seas - whether it's Bill botching his first term as governor of Arkansas, or Hillary's failure to pass health care reform even with a Democratic Congress - and shine the brightest when bailing frantically for survival...
...Hammonds said she is still in the process of learning the details of Administrative Board reform and the College’s alcohol policy, both of which have made waves over the course of this academic year with students...
...sudden move to reform French Holocaust education, French President Nicholas Sarkozy announced in February an unprecedented new curriculum for fifth graders learning about the Holocaust. Every fifth-grade classroom in France will henceforth be assigned to a French child-victim of the Holocaust, about whose life the students will be required to learn. If Sarkozy’s personal life and politics were under fire before, his new mandate has sparked a conflagration. But despite the criticisms of the French left, Sarkozy’s heart seems to be in the right place—it is his planning that...