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Beyond the raw numbers that will decide how HCC translate into graduation requirements, the Committee must formulate stringent requirements for what can constitute a HCC. Anyone can have a vision for HCC—we think that they should be rigorous, interdisciplinary, and focused on intellectually worthy topics that could not be covered adequately within departments—but if the Committee charts out lofty goals and aspirations for the HCC but neglects to decide what it all means in any practical sense, they have condemned the College and its students to another generation in intellectual purgatory. Saying a course...
...changes have not led to open revolt by vested interests, although it appears politicians have been persuaded to abandon a useful forestry reform bill. Batley has not yet run into the sort of stalemate that would force ramsi to attach more stringent conditions to its program - or require heavy prodding from Canberra. While ramsi officials labor the point that the intervention is a regional response, there's little doubt in anyone's mind that this is Australia's show. Invited in or not, Canberra could not have a failed state on its doorstep: humanitarian concerns aside, lawlessness and anarchy...
...gasoline and diesel are expected to account for nearly half of the country's oil demand. Last month Beijing approved its first fuel-efficiency standards for passenger vehicles, which will begin to take effect in 2005 and will be more stringent than those in the U.S. Toyota plans to manufacture the Prius, its hybrid gasoline-electric car, in China, where it hopes the clean vehicle will find a significant market. Beijing's government, meanwhile, is working to develop electric cars before 2008, and GM is working with the Shanghai Automotive Group on a hybrid-bus design...
It’s time to stop giving these presidents a pass. Football has held up its end of the bargain. The teams have adhered to the stringent rules and still found a way to put a competitive product on the field...
...said there has been a movement to increase absentee voting within the last 20 or 30 years, probably in an effort to increase voter turnout. The trend of voting from a college address has become more available only in the latter half of the 20th century, due to less stringent definitions of what constitutes residency, said Keyssar...