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Required courses have captive audiences, and, as we have seen in our previous curricular reforms, short intellectual half-lives. If our new, foundational curriculum in the life, physical, and engineering sciences is to succeed, let it be because it is better conceived and better taught, not because any one part of it is compulsory. If new Courses in General Education are to make their mark in the lineage of great Harvard courses, let it be because they are great courses, not because they are mandated. If, as we expect, the study of the broader world and the languages spoken...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, his senior staff plotted a strategy to keep the president—and the president’s remarks on women in science—as far from the limelight as possible, according to three people familiar with the strategy. It would only partially succeed...
There is another, more personal challenge facing Olmert. He and Netanyahu, along with Dan Meridor and Benjamin Begin, were once called the four princes of Likud--and of them, Olmert was regarded as the least likely to succeed, a smart inside operator but a politician, not a statesman. He will have to perform in the spotlight now, and inside players tend to wilt when shoved onto center stage. Netanyahu has become Israel's Richard Nixon--his negatives are stratospheric, but he is a tough competitor, a plausible Prime Minister. Olmert will have another opponent as well: the memory of Ariel...
...said. “I’d also like to have at least one participant from each house...so each house will have an expert.” Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin wrote in an e-mail that he expects the DAPA program to succeed. “Ryan’s plans to include alcohol and drug peer counselors as a part of his effort to educate students will prove effective in the year ahead,” he wrote. “I am eager to see how [Travia?...
...media. The girls’ father, Christopher Murphy, happens to be a friend of Reilly’s who donated $300 to his gubernatorial campaign in June. Conte did as the attorney general suggested, and more. Saying that he did not believe a criminal case against Berberian could succeed, he refused to even release the toxicology reports privately to the Northborough police, who subsequently dropped their investigation.Reilly maintains that he acted only in the best interests of a family that has endured a horrible experience, and that he never asked Conte to drop the case entirely. But this defense...