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...devices, the administration and faculty will probably come up with an acceptable alternative to the Core (it would be hard to dream up anything less successful). However, unless students both contribute to that decision and agree with the rationale behind it, the new general education requirement (the current proposed successor to the Core) will become unpopular long before the next review. We can tinker with academic, extracurricular and social structures at Harvard all we want, but without engaging students and focusing on their experience and culture it will be for naught...
...only can reform, it's waiting for it." France may not have to wait too long. Next month Sarkozy will resign as Finance Minister after his expected election to the relatively obscure post of president of his party, the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP). The ump is the successor to the Rally for the Republic, the party President Jacques Chirac founded in 1976 to support his presidential ambitions. Sarkozy is expected to use the ump post for the same purpose...
...Schröder's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is bracing for a major setback when state elections are held next month in Brandenburg, Saxony and Saarland. The SPD is faring so badly in Brandenburg, where it currently rules in a coalition government, that the Party of Democratic Socialism - the successor to the former East German communists - has overtaken it in opinion polls...
...Bush is touting have been on the shelf for years. The President is proposing incentives for employers to offer flex-time arrangements that would allow workers to work longer hours so they could accrue comp time and use it at their discretion. He is also preparing to unveil a successor to the No Child Left Behind Act that would try to make high schools more accountable--the first bill was directed more at younger kids--and a proposal that would make community colleges more accessible through increased financial aid. Other proposals will stress greater personal control over health insurance...
...open architecture that promoted user modifications. Today video games are a $7 billion industry, and most of them rip off Carmack's work in one form or another. The military used multiplayer Doom to train soldiers for combat. Architects use the graphics engine for Quake, Doom's successor, to explore their buildings before they build them. Doom and Quake have pushed computer manufacturers to make (and gamers to buy) faster, more powerful machines...