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...Fellman Voorhees, New Jersey, U.S. Re "Why Germans are smiling again," on German Chancellor Angela Merkel: I take exception to the idea that Germans are looking to the future with more optimism because of Merkel. Positive developments appeared in the country before the elections. The fact is that any reform, drastic or timid, will need some time to produce effects, especially when, as in the case of employment, the government has only a very indirect influence. Your story says Merkel is nudging German foreign policy back toward a closeness to Washington. But it is the U.S. that has been moving...
...prepares to move into the President’s Office, he suggested Monday that curricular reform may be a high priority during his tenure...
...although he did not mention many specific goals for the year ahead, Bok did say that he aims to push the Faculty to reform Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum, continuing the review launched three-and-a-half years...
...Robinson professor of mathematics, said. “Now, there are many layers of deans. It is not clear that the faculty council can do a lot about this; however, I want to do what I can in that direction.” On the subject of general education reform, the last major piece of the College’s curricular review, Schmid said that his “opinion was formed relatively early.” “I arrived at Harvard around the same time as the Core in ’78,” Schmid...
...less assured than the undeniable costs of a more discriminatory and insular Japan. With its beguiling culture, intriguing history, and cutting-edge electronic innovations, Japan has much to offer the world. The world also has much to offer Japan, including an infusion of fresh ideas about how to reform an ossified politico-economic order largely unchanged since the early years of the Cold War. Indeed, within a few years Japan may desperately need foreigners not only to visit, but even to stay. With a plummeting birth rate, rapidly aging population, and lingering structural problems in the financial sphere, Japan?...