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...Unfortunately, however, Gen Ed is a program not yet ready for prime time. If we wished it to be merely a rearrangement of the same courses into new boxes, the proposed system could start today. But this would not be true reform. Gen Ed’s success will not derive from a creative reassignment of today’s Core courses. Rather, if it achieves its aims, the program’s legacy will be a curriculum that integrates innovative teaching methods, and focuses on the twenty-first century world. Accomplishing such lofty goals requires a period during which...
...when investment returns dipped to 12.5 percent, the lowest rate of the past five years. Proponents of a 5 percent mandate note that other tax-exempt institutions—such as private foundations—are already subject to the rule, as originally required by the Tax Reform Act of 1969. In a press release detailing the initiative, Yale President Richard C. Levin said the $307 million budget increase would go toward expanding scientific research and upping financial aid for students in an initiative set to be announced next week. That initiative is expected to parallel Harvard?...
...something else has changed as well, and it's his knowledge of just how precarious a New Hampshire victory can be. His advisors have already put up an ad in Michigan, whose primary falls on Jan. 15. The 30-second spot called "Reform," encapsulates the message they believe helped them win New Hampshire: McCain faces the camera and tells viewers how angry he's made "big spenders," "special interests" and "defense contractors...
...media until his grassroots campaign and populist message caught on in late March. Edwards is a much stronger and more credible candidate than Brown, who ran as a quirky outsider, but there are a lot of similarities in their messages: Brown ran on a platform of campaign finance reform, pledging to end the "Stop-and Shop for the monied special interests"; Edwards has focused his campaign on fighting corporate greed and restoring the middle class. "I don't think we're going to have meaningful change in this country unless we have a President that's willing to fight...
McCain is also still recovering from the July implosion of his campaign, which resulted in pink slips for most of his staff in the state. Voters, already upset by McCain's support of an immigration reform bill in Congress, gave up on him. "They thought that the campaign was over," says Trey Walker, McCain's campaign manager in the state. But Walker remains optimistic. "The McCain resurgence is palpable," he said, adding that the campaign was now at about three-quarters its pre-July stength...