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...designers of Gen Ed and those students forced to study under it. The transition between the Core and Gen Ed needed to happen quickly, and it did not. Upperclassmen left behind now find themselves scouring the course catalog and petitioning the Core office to find feasible options to complete remaining requirements. Forcing students to choose between a handful of obscure Core courses (with some exploring duplicate topics) to meet a requirement is unfair to a student body who has long been promised a revamped system of education. There need to be concrete incentives for faculty to develop as many...
...Gates, along with Petraeus, has cautioned that the hard-won security gains remain fragile and must be cemented by political progress and reconciliation. "We are at a pivotal moment where progress remains fragile and caution should be the order of the day," he said...
...will fall to Odierno to oversee the implementation of the new agreement and the gradual drawdown of U.S. troops from Iraq as they hand over control to Iraqi security forces. "This struggle is theirs to win," Odierno said. But doubts remain as to whether they can. Odierno's No. 2, Lieut. General Lloyd Austin, said on Monday that he wasn't "sure that pushing [Iraqi security forces] forward is the right thing that we want...
...also on the rise in several northern districts of Iraq, as well as between al-Maliki and his Kurdish coalition partners in Baghdad. Provincial elections are to be held by the end of this year, but they cannot go ahead until a law governing them is passed. But politicians remain deadlocked over the law, unable to agree on the status of the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, which Kurds want to claim as part of their semi-autonomous northern region...
...number of infants sickened by a batch of tainted milk powder expands daily. On September 17, Chinese Health Ministry authorities announced that over 6200 babies had fallen ill, many developing kidney stones, from drinking milk made from toxic powder. At least three have died, and more than 50 remain in serious condition. Officials have said the number of victims could climb, the China Daily reported...