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Every first-year gets a scare session on the penalties of plagiarism and the importance of academic excellence. Why is it then that there are no clear rules or requirements for the amount of effort that faculty must contribute to the course environment? If passing requirements can be set for students across the board without threat to their academic freedom, then surely it is possible for faculty as well. Without them, students can hardly consider themselves equal citizens in an academic community; rather we realize that we are looked on, at best, as mere consumers of “education...
Last week, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh joined more than 150 foreign leaders in New York City to kick off this year's session of the United Nations' General Assembly and celebrate the institution's 60th birthday. Singh had a weighty agenda: he talked Kashmir with Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, discussed India's nuclear-energy needs with George W. Bush, and lobbied for a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. (Japan, Germany and Brazil each want one too.) The U.N.'s "structure and decision-making process," he said in an address to the General Assembly, "reflect the world...
...greatest victory, helping the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) to its biggest majority since 1986. The encore, however, could prove trickier. Koizumi's postal-reform bill, aimed at breaking Japan's $3 trillion postal service into four separate companies by 2017, will be re-submitted at a special Diet session this week and is all but guaranteed to pass. His plans beyond that are hazy. Koizumi has promised to step down when his term as party president (and thus Prime Minister) expires in September 2006. But "one year is not enough to implement long-term policies," says political commentator Minoru...
Speaking of Bush’s alliance with U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in a question-and-answer session, Obama drew roaring laughs when he compared the president to a “crazy uncle...
...question-and-answer session, Obama discussed his nine months in office as the only African-American in the Senate and his experience with colleagues on the other side of the aisle...