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...current general education requirement, the Core Curriculum, was established in 1979 after six years of careful consideration. Its guiding theme was that students should be inducted into the special “ways of thinking” that characterized the various disciplines. Knowledge was expanding rapidly, and the prevailing idea that students should study a common body of material was becoming increasingly questioned. Some of what now seems arcane in the Core can be explained by intellectual controversies that loomed large when the program was first developed. Today, as the disciplines have grown and changed, the structure of the Core...
...theme to watch on this primary day is the fate of some famous political heirs. In New Jersey, Tom Kean, Jr., the son of former Republican Governor and 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Tom Kean, is expected to grab the GOP nomination for governor. In Alabama, the son of the late Gov. George C. Wallace will probably win the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. And in Iowa, the leading Democrat in the state's gubernatorial primary is Secretary of State Chet Culver, son of the state's longtime senator Dick Culver. If he wins, Culver would face Republican Congressman Jim Nussle...
...library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott, a native of Little Rock, Ark., went on to become a pioneer of gay and lesbian fiction who has written 20 science fiction and fantasy novels so far.A consistent theme of Scott’s novels is how society defines a person, who gets to set the definition, and how people shape their mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna J. Sturgis says, “Melissa manages to pull together an array of strong influences, some of them apparently...
...Moulitsas will cop to setting the unabashedly belligerent tone of Daily Kos, right down to the design, which he calls "combative." Its logo is a silhouette of someone charging with a flag, and "the whole military theme of the site is very on purpose." Moulitsas spent part of his childhood in El Salvador during the country's civil war and was an Army artilleryman in Germany for three years, a background that, he says, makes him comfortable with throwing verbal bombs as well. "I'm not The Nation," he says. "I'm not afraid to use swear words. If people...
...coming weeks, the party will coalesce around several working-class issues, including raising the minimum wage and increasing student loans, which the leaders believe will appeal to voters concerned about values. Emanuel's candidates will sign on to a "Six in '06" list of issues with a populist theme. Dean, who says the party should appeal to Evangelicals, will echo those working-class appeals this fall with a push on values. And Pelosi has promised that bills along those lines will be the first the House would take up if Democrats won a majority...