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...James M. Moran, chair of the Department of Astronomy, in an e-mailed statement.The Educational Policy Committee’s Kenen said she was pleased with how thoughtful the department had been in their concentration revisions, allowing the EPC to approve them without reservation.“They really sat down and, from scratch, thought about ‘what is the purpose of an undergraduate education?’ and ‘what should that program look like?’” she said.After the department discussed the proposed changes in the spring and fall...
...Monsters vs Aliens commercial during the Super Bowl - maybe with the special glasses or, without them, as a myopic blur. If you took your kids to the Jonas Brothers movie, you sat through nearly a dozen trailers for 3-D movies to be released this year. Perhaps you saw the latest issues of TIME, People and three other Time Inc. publications promoting 3-D as "pretty darn cool," and citing such top directors as Steven Spielberg, James Cameron and Peter Jackson as being in love with the process...
...That effort has stirred Le Pen, who sat in France's parliament for seven years, from a relative silent spell. During a session of the European Union's legislature on March 25, Le Pen repeated his notorious contention that "the gas chambers were a detail of Second World War history". The first time Le Pen made that claim, in 1987, he was convicted in both France and Germany for violating laws banning racist and anti-Semitic hate-speech. In repeating the scandalous notion in Strasbourg Wednesday, Le Pen sought to justify his initial voicing of it by describing...
...earnings and federal loans, the average financial-aid applicant will pocket $28,000 in Skidmore grants. Skidmore, like many of its peer schools, also allocates funding for superstars with financial need, a practice known as "preferential packaging." The most desirable students--the ones who blew the lid off the SAT, for instance, or those who will be the first in their family to go to college--get a nice surprise in their aid awards: fewer loans, more grants. "Just like an airplane," explains Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO...
...overhaul of the world's financial regulation and institutions in response to increasing globalization. The global economic crisis, which has hit Britain hard, has given him a rare chance to get his message across. In the midst of intensive preparations for hosting the G-20 meeting in London, he sat down with TIME at 10 Downing Street to discuss his hopes for the summit. (See pictures of Brown...