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...leadership of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) is in the midst of its first major review of the Harvard College curriculum since the mid-1970s. The report issued this spring offers a set of proposals that we believe will strengthen undergraduate education at Harvard and prepare students well for their post-college lives. Next year, the community will debate and refine the proposals and prepare to implement changes in the undergraduate curriculum...
Several years ago, for example, the two biology departments created a new course in genetics and genomics to serve as the gateway to concentration, introducing students early to the basic language of the life sciences. The English department revised its junior tutorial program two years ago to strengthen its intellectual content and to bring small groups of undergraduates together with one graduate student for each group to explore a topic of mutual interest, with emphasis on research and writing. With greater faculty strength and more courses in film studies, the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will offer...
...must wait until Parliament has time for them. Voters are disgusted. Politicians "are just thinking of their own interests," says Southern Highlander Rosemary Bere, 24. "They forget all about the people. Those who are causing instability should leave aside their differences and work together to help the people and strengthen the economy." In that task, says Michael Mayberry, head of the P.N.G. Chamber of Commerce, "uncertainty doesn't help at all." With this government, "not everything is as good as we'd like, but we have seen improvement." The kina is up, and inflation and interest rates are the lowest...
Whereas pressure from member schools had previously brought Murray in line when he spoke out against the television grid plan—some traditional opponents had gone so far as to drop the Quakers from their schedule—on Oct. 28, 1953 the eight schools agreed to strengthen their intra-conference calendars, implementing a round-robin schedule that guaranteed seven league games per season...
...democracy promotion. Toppling a couple regimes won’t prove our commitment to spreading democracy if we don’t also support our long-time democratic allies and reward efforts toward prosperity and religious pluralism which sustain democracy. As we try to win the support of Iraqis, strengthen the pro-democracy elements of Iran’s civil society against their theocratic rulers and inspire people from North Korea to Libya to dream of self-governance, we have to stand behind countries like India. In our quest for the hearts and minds of peoples across the world, ending...