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...often righteously boring.In theory, Moral Reasoning courses will help you learn to deal with tough ethical questions, and face up to quandaries that enable you to hone your moral compass. Though the MR menu provides a seemingly gourmet spread of professors, readings, and course titles, reality is often more rump roast than filet mignon. The oft-bemoaned core is a product of the 1978 Core Curriculum report, written under the auspices of then (and now) University President Derek C. Bok. The disco era’s original spawn was to be called “Philosophical Analysis...
What will he leave behind? Beyond spurring Britain's remarkable economic performance, Blair led Labour's rise from a rump to a three-term party of government that boosted investment and raised standards in schools and hospitals. But Blair's political skill will complicate his party's future because it has motivated the opposition to copy New Labour's popular centrist policies. After years in the wilderness, the rival Tories have rallied behind Cameron, 39, who is stressing ecology, international development and the promotion of women and ethnic minorities instead of old Tory standards like immigrant bashing and tax cutting...
...experience in diplomacy and security issues pushed middle-of-the-roaders toward Sharon. The man who hopes to profit most from Sharon's tragedy, however, is his archrival, Benjamin Netanyahu, the onetime Prime Minister whose tenure was marked by relentless opposition to any territorial trade-aways. Left running a rump party populated by the far right that polls a humiliating third, Netanyahu hopes to woo back disenchanted centrists who may fear doing deals with the Arabs without Sharon's strong arm. "He definitely wants to adhere to a more centrist position," says Likud veteran Zalman Shoval, a former ambassador...
...business of coming home should have been relatively routine--at least by the high-wire standards of space travel. After shimmying out of their sleep restraints, the crew would stow gear and belt themselves into their seats--a process that would take a good six hours. With Columbia turned rump forward, the commander would then fire the main maneuvering engines, slowing the spacecraft and easing it toward the upper wisps of the atmosphere. Once he turned the ship around, he would surf the currents of the steadily thickening air, fishtailing this way and that until, just an hour...
...King Hussein and by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, of a Middle East peace initiative that the two men put together in February. Even so, to the optimistic Jordanians, that relatively opaque reference amounted to a tacit go-ahead for their peace plan from the rump assembly...