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...response to meetings with students and self-review, the faculty is completing a wholesale curriculum reform that will usher in next year: a new advising system with two faculty dedicated full time to advising and programming, a revised sophomore tutorial program, a new set of junior research seminars, an improved system of senior thesis mentoring and advice on research funding, added “meat and potatoes” courses in all areas with faculty taught sections, more advice and support for study abroad, more regular consultation with students, and more informal student/faculty gatherings...
That's about average in Spain these days. The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981. But a 2005 reform that removed such obstacles as a ? mandatory year-long separation prior to the granting of a divorce has caused those numbers to skyrocket. Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone...
...Christian family," ? Cardinal Augustín ? García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, ? saying, "The culture of radical laicism ? leads to nothing but despair along the road of ? abortion and express divorce." Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees: "The reform has transformed the marriage contract into trash. It's banalized marriage...
...Freeze College Magazine ended their “Freeze Freshman” contest for the 2008 “Mr. Harvard Freshman,” they tallied a whooping 6,021 votes—almost three times the number submitted in this past Undergraduate Council election. Ad Board reform is apparently not that glamorous...
Nader has his reasons for making another try at Pennsylvania Avenue—he thinks many significant issues like military spending, labor reform, and “cracking down on corporate crime” have been largely ignored in mainstream political dialogue—but one almost feels as if he’s mainly running because he can. In an interview with The New York Times following his announcement, Nader claimed, “If there was no other reason to run—other than the civil liberties, civil rights issue of ballot access—it?...