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...member Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, who attended yesterday’s meeting. The push to approve more departmental alternatives for Core requirements now is a result of uncertainty about the future of the curricular review’s General Education proposal, said Harvard College Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a member of the CSC. While the faculty continues to debate General Education, expanding Core offerings will alleviate student concern that the Core is too restrictive, Ulrich said. “If someone would like to take a more challenging course, that seems pretty reasonable...
...spate of interviews Tuesday, he said that Blair should fix a date precisely by telling a group of senior MPs when he's leaving. He even raised the historical precedent of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was chucked out of power after an unseemly brawl among Tory...
...British monarchy. Anyone watching U.S. President George W. Bush post 9/11 can appreciate the value of a nonpolitical constitutional monarch. Bush accused his opponents of being unpatriotic, presenting himself as the embodiment of the American nation: a role for a constitutional monarch. It is significant that Margaret Thatcher?no shrinking violet?feared no politician yet freely admitted that she faced her weekly briefing sessions with the Queen with trepidation. I greatly enjoyed your story about the Queen, but please don't dismiss her role as "self-evidently nonsensical." Let the monarchy evolve. Michael Alan Peate Ottawa...
...President George W. Bush post-9/11 can appreciate the value of a nonpolitical constitutional monarch. Bush wrapped himself in Old Glory and accused his opponents of being unpatriotic, presenting himself as the embodiment of the American nation: a role for a constitutional monarch. It is significant that Margaret Thatcher - no shrinking violet - feared no politicians yet freely admitted that she faced her weekly briefing sessions with the Queen with trepidation. I greatly enjoyed your story about the Queen, but please don't dismiss her role as "self-evidently nonsensical." Let the monarchy evolve. Michael Alan Peate Ottawa A General...
...Professor of Science Robert P. Kirshner ’70, a CSC member, in an e-mail yesterday morning. “For the Science Core, there’s no ‘loosening’ of requirements or change in approach.” But historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th anniversary University professor and another CSC member, wrote yesterday morning that students “will have lots of new possibilities” for fulfilling history Core requirements next year, as the number of departmental bypasses will be expanded to at least 15. —Staff...