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While administrators once hoped to begin voting on how to revamp Harvard College’s curriculum by this spring, a variety of setbacks—including the controversy surrounding embattled University President Lawrence H. Summers—has resulted in a year of only gradual progress, leading to dozens of revised recommendations, but no votes and little time for Faculty discussion...
Some think that the school’s revamp was unnecessary and reeked of corporatism. “I didn’t like the ‘identity campaign,’ which seemed very corporate and like every other ‘identity campaign,’” Professor of Urban Design and Planning Theory Margaret Crawford wrote in an e-mail...
Erspamer also hopes that by working at Harvard he will help to revamp and renew interest in the field of Italian studies throughout...
...rumblings that President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo might be overthrown by a coup or even another People Power revolt reached alarming levels. In a public statement, three Roman Catholic bishops warned the President early last week that "time is running out" and said that if there isn't an immediate revamp of the country's government, "no force on earth can ever stop the coming deluge of change." These exhortations for change echoed a similar call from a group led by former Defense Secretary Fortunato Abat; meanwhile, local newspapers carried ominous front-page features on the nation's increasingly angry, frustrated...
George Bush is trying to call the bluff of Democrats, who have been so unified in their opposition to his plan to revamp Social Security. After months of ducking specifics about the hard benefits cuts that will be necessary to fix the system, Bush used his prime-time press conference last week to endorse a plan that would ask future middle- and higher-income retirees to accept smaller benefit checks than they're currently slated to receive, while allowing poor recipients to maintain current benefit levels. In a 60-day effort to push his plan (with its controversial provision...