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...sure, many of the proposals of the HCCR’s report are thorough and well-reasoned. Quantitative analysis, a necessary skill, received appropriate attention in the report. Its teaching must be planned carefully, so that students will be successfully equipped with adequate quantitative abilities by the time they graduate. Second, by making at least a gesture toward the diminution of pre-med requirements, the report admirably strives to combat one of the major remaining impediments to the full realization of the liberal arts. Finally and most importantly, by reaffirming its dedication to faculty-student interaction, in particular through increased...
...Mighty Fortress: A New History of the German People, Ozment harnesses over 2000 years of German history in less than 350 pages. Friendly, thorough and wholly comprehensive, the book is an enlightening way to learn about the fascinating and controversial Germans...
These are just some of the issues that need addressing. There are many more that a thorough examination of the department would reveal. Of course, NELC is not entirely inadequate. There are currently more than a hundred students in NELC, with 19 undergraduate concentrators (including myself). However, the advantages I enjoy—small concentration size and flexibility in choosing classes—are more and more offset by the antiquated doctrine on which the department is based. Reexamining the department will allow for a better and more valuable academic experience for those interested in the Middle East...
...created its own momentum for change: the more the White House fought the commission's requests, the more the commissioners became convinced that radical change was needed. By the time they met in public last week for the 10th time, most of them had come to think that a thorough overhaul of the way the nation organizes, collects and distributes intelligence was necessary. Former Navy Secretary John Lehman, a Republican, warned the CIA's Tenet last week, "There is a train coming down the track. There are going to be very real changes made...
...suspects Williams mentioned did have al-Qaeda links; one trained with Hanjour at an Arizona flight school. A thorough investigation of flight schools might have led to one in Florida where an instructor recalled the odd behavior of 9/11 pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi or to a California outfit that expelled al-Hazmi and al-Midhar for lack of flight skills and poor English. Had Williams' memo been sent to all FBI field offices, it could have set off alarms at the Minneapolis field office when would-be pilot Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested in August...