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...That's the story Japanese student textbooks told too, until the government announced on March 30 that it had ordered publishers to delete those passages. Instead one textbook now reads that Okinawans were "driven to mass suicide," without mentioning the army's role. The change is the latest controversial tweak by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who also recently denied that women were forced into sexual slavery during...
...Bourne identity. For one thing, Edward begins as a real boy who's killed in a freak accident. (Helpful hint, kids: Don't play with scissors during an electrical storm.) And the inventor doesn't construct a new boy; rather he strives to revive the dead one. In another tweak, the local teenagers, led by Kim's dastard beau, are responsible for the Inventor's death (though Bourne doesn't pursue this line to its logical confrontation). There's also a severe reduction in the importance of Kim's mother, and a promotion of Joyce, the vamp in toreador pants...
...fulfill this rule. Though gender-neutral housing is currently available for students who identify as transsexual, the College is trying to “regularize that process,” according to Associate Dean for Residential Life Suzy M. Nelson. “The issue is how do we tweak it to regularize it, make it more transparent, and make it more well-known,” Assistant Dean of Residential Life Joshua G. McIntosh said. In order to implement a more accessible system, CHL plans to work with the Masters of each House separately, particularly because the Houses conduct...
...tweak the algorithm every year based on our collection of thousands of students’ data,” Price said...
...after the Task Force on General Education delivers its final report—professors vote on its guiding philosophy. If they do not support this focus on citizenship and non-academic relevance, then no matter how the categories are finally outlined, the College will end up with a slightly tweaked Core. The Curricular Review has not lasted four years to tweak the Core; it’s here to fundamentally redefine Harvard’s general education. We hope that professors approve this philosophy, and begin the arduous task of implementing its rule over a much, much different...