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...harken back to a happier time, if only for explantation's sake. In the 1940s then-President James B. Conant '14 initiated a reform of Harvard's undergraduate curriculum; his subsequent report, "General Education in a Free Society," eventually led to the adoption of a set of requirements that each student would have to take, in addition to courses in his or her concentration. The scheme was simple, at least on the surface: the range of disciplines was divided into the Social Sciences. Natural Sciences and Humanities (affectionately known as Soc Sci, Nat Sci and Hum), with the Committee...
...needs of specific clienteles: the Natural Science coruse, for instance, that would approach scientific issues from a philosophical or political perspective, or the Humanities course custom-built for the pocket-calculator, pre-med set. James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the special Task Force that reported on the Gen Ed system two years ago said then that "We have never really abandoned the principle of General Education. But the present General Education guidelines are ineffective and worn down." The Task Force's report was a bit more biting: noting the number of Nat Sci courses that...
Reformers like Alschuler and Morris think that judges should be involved in plea bargaining. Rather than prosecutors making deals based on a "rap sheet" and an arrest report, negotiations should be done out in the open, with the defendant present and with more thorough pre-sentence investigation. Others question whether judges are any less arbitrary than prosecutors and look to mandatory sentences fixed by legislatures as the answer...
...firms report that their shift to suburbia has also made it easier to recruit executives from other parts of the country. Champion International relocated in Stamford (pop. 108,000) partly because it wanted to bring in managers from Cincinnati and St. Paul, Minn., and found that many resisted a move to New York. Similarly, Union Carbide Executive James C. Rowland cites "Middle America attitudes" about city problems as a reason for that company's move to Danbury (pop. 60,000). Says he: "We think Danbury will always be more like the area that we are recruiting people from...
...test, the researchers report in Science, they alternately led each chimp off by himself into another room. There he was allowed to watch a container being filled with any one of eleven different kinds of food, such as bananas, bean cake and candy. Handed the food, he was then led back by a researcher (who did not know the container's contents). The other chimp quickly eyed the sealed container but had no idea what was in it either. The returning chimp would then press the appropriate button on the console, which would flash the lexigram for the food...