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This is not to suggest that the HCCR report contained nothing of value in reevaluating the current format of concentrations. The focus on increasing student-faculty interaction by establishing within each field the requirement for every student to participate in small, faculty-taught classes goes a long way in identifying and addressing one of the greatest problems with undergraduate education at Harvard. In addition, allowing students to voice feedback and concerns through the formation of an Undergraduate Studies Committee, composed of concentrators, within each department will provide valuable insights as to how the concentrations might be improved in the future...
...their letter reflects the anxieties of many serving diplomats and MPs as well. Still more worrisome for Blair is the growing unease among senior military officers about Britain's role in Iraq's occupation, now being amplified by the urgent U.S. request for more troops. The Pentagon has suggested that Brits replace the 1,300 Spanish soldiers now going home by expanding their occupation zone. Saying yes would require dispatching several thousand British soldiers to Iraq. Blair's strong instinct is to accede. But British officers fear that what one calls the "Fort Apache tactics" of American forces, most notably...
Meanwhile, the report is severely lacking in areas that could have put Harvard on the vanguard of thinking about education. For instance, the discussion of arts in the curriculum runs a mere page and culminates in only one suggestion: that the dean of the humanities look at the arts. The lifeless section seems to conclude that performance and artistic endeavors lack academic merit, a view which is falling out of favor at most colleges nationwide. Thankfully, administrators were smart enough to cut one seemingly disparaging and nonsensical sentence that found its way into the confidential draft version of the report...
...parties at home in Madison, Wis. She finds that the most pressing challenge of college parties is “not having enough booze.” Although many undergraduates look forward to a post-college golden era of creative and chic cocktail events, the current Harvard scene may suggest that sophistication is still a ways...
...this week, the U.S. had appeared to be shaping once again to pulverize the insurgents, some of whose positions were subjected to three days of pounding by AC-130 gunships, satellite guided bombs and helicopter fired rockets after firing on Marine positions. But the new deal reported Thursday would suggest that the assault may, once again, have been called off to allow for a new political solution. Still, clashes continued into the night on Thursday despite the announcement of a new plan...