Word: revampment
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...avoid biased or inhibited critique. Students are allowed the requisite 20 minutes to complete course appraisals consisting of numerous bubble-responses and a few prompts for the students to jot comments regarding the course’s merits and shortcomings. Many involved in the CUE’s revamp have suggested that evaluations make room for more lengthy remarks—a step in the right direction in becoming more comprehensive, but because of its ill-timed administration, it is still an inaccurate gauge of students’ opinion...
...Blair now cranks up his support for the euro even as Brown deems the economic tests unmet, the Tories will try to tar Blair as the ideologue. And events are delivering a powerful hammer for pounding that point home: the European Convention, which next month will propose ways to revamp European institutions. Euro-skeptics are already portraying the convention as a cabal of creeping federalism. Last week the tabloid Sun published a poll showing that 81% of Britons don't know a new European treaty is being considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit...
...following Monday’s firing—for firing it was—of Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, serious questions remain concerning plans now being formulated by Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to revamp the College experience and refocus it around academics. Lewis may well have irked undergraduates with his keg ban at Harvard-Yale, but he had an intelligent, holistic vision of undergraduate life. And even if Lewis’ personality clash with Summers made his departure inevitable, as University Hall insiders have confirmed, his balanced perspective...
With more than 30,000 travel guidebooks on the market, it can be hard to keep up?especially when new entries keep coming and old ones keep changing. Budget-travel stalwart The Rough Guide, has left a bit of its backpacking image behind with a stylish revamp and now includes some upscale activities, such as wine tasting. Its budget-travel competitor, the Lonely Planet series, currently features downloadable upgrades on its website that contain changes since the last edition was published. And for the more upscale traveler, two new guidebook series are creating a buzz...
...East, despite Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s “soft hiring” freeze on new faculty. The College should not have to sacrifice its academic mission and its relevance for budget concerns. It must make the necessary administrative and faculty hires to revamp the program and shift its focus towards the study of the modern region. This way, it can better serve the Harvard community on such pressing issues as the dimensions of Middle East terrorism, the rise of Islamism and the causes of the turmoil that besieges the Middle East region today...