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...either to ensure all students graduate with a common body of knowledge or to emphasize the “real-world applications” of a liberal arts education. Since our new General Education follows the latter, utility-based model, the classes selected by the transitional committee should tailor themselves to the needs of students...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore | Title: The Core in Real Life | 10/24/2007 | See Source »

...CABOS: The vast Spa Suites at Mexico's Las Ventanas al Paraiso, tel: (52-624) 144 2800, each come complete with a dedicated spa butler, treatment room, infrared sauna, rainforest shower and organic minibar. They're also the setting for the 14-day Ultimate Fitness Program for Two - a tailor-made overhaul that includes 26 yoga, pilates or fitness classes, four exfoliations, 18 sports massages, three silver-ion facials and daily herbal remedies. The package costs a total of $59,400 - a sum that might have given you a heart attack, were you not in such tip-top shape upon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: You Pay Your Money | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

College, Perlstein wrote, is no longer a place for creative exploration, but rather for infantilization by highly scheduled student bureaucracies where students tailor their fun for their resumes...

Author: By Mohindra Rupram, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Why College Matters, According to Yale | 10/2/2007 | See Source »

...Templeton was actually pressing Graham to modernize his ministry, make it more commercially viable. What could be more tempting - to a rising preacher trying to reach young people, a preacher who stressed being approachable and relevant - than to tailor his theology to the tastes of the times, especially if the latest scholarship allowed wider appeal? But for Graham this was not an option. He felt that he could either believe the Bible or leave the ministry. "It was not too late to be a dairy farmer," he concluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Christopher Hitchens Is Wrong About Billy Graham | 9/18/2007 | See Source »

...stock taker in a clothes maker. He quickly proved a talented operator, winning a promotion for himself and the white manager, a Mr. Bolton, who took him on. A grateful Bolton began to sell offcuts and soiled cloth to Maponya, who set up his own tailor and sold clothing on credit. The authorities closed that business - despite the best efforts of South Africa's first black law firm, established by Mandela and Oliver Tambo - but not before Maponya had built enough capital to set up a dairy in Soweto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retail Renegade: Richard Maponya | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

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