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...that date, the registrar plans to offer an online tool allowing students who have declared their concentration to officially choose between the Core and Gen Ed. In hopes of better educating students about the differences between the two curricular programs, the Gen Ed office plans to hold an information session open to all students sometime around the planned release of the online tool on October 15, Kenen said. —Staff writer Benjamin M. Jaffe can be reached at bjaffe@fas.harvard.edu...
...already.” Though he avoided calling out the White House as spineless for suggesting compromise, he joked that some “spinal transplants” that he had performed on Democrats in Congress were “rejected.” During the question-and-answer session, a middle-aged woman pressed Dean on what “rank-and-file” people should do if Obama backs away from the public option. Dean blamed Obama’s advisers for convincing the president that any health care bill that’s passed would...
...accurately represent his viewpoints. She also argued that “any commitment to justice has to take into account the historical forces in which people are living.” Audience members also had their own challenges to Sandel’s ideas in a question-and-answer session. Rima Merhi, a fellow at the HKS Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, said after the talk that the panel did not spend enough time discussing implementation of justice and the relationship between justice and politics. “I really feel so many people don’t understand...
...vulnerable freshmen and sophomore lawmakers to vote for the bill in order to pass it - a big gamble in an uncertain electoral atmosphere. So skittish are a few vulnerable Democrats that they are actually considering skipping President Obama's much-touted speech on health-care reform before a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9, for fear of being caught on camera applauding any health-care initiatives. "There are a lot of freaked-out moderate and swing-district Democrats who are now gun-shy, regardless of what is in the bill," says Charlie Cook, editor of the nonpartisan Cook Political...
...reform. In just the past two months, he has held six health-care town halls and a prime-time news conference. But public support for his plans has been declining throughout the summer. So the answer, he believes, is one more speech, Wednesday night in front of a joint session of Congress. (See 10 players in health-care reform...