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...Even supporters of a great books program said they believed that student enthusiasm was not widespread enough to warrant making such a curriculum a requirement. Many professors interviewed for this article said that it is simply not in Harvard’s DNA to require students to take specific courses. The College, they said, has always opted for more choice in undergraduates’ courses of study...
...concern is not about me," she said. "My concern is whether there have been widespread abuses [that] may impact the members of Congress, but, more importantly, may impact a broad cross section of the American public who don't have the bully pulpit that...
...Galeano, a Uruguayan journalist, explains how Europe, and later the United States, plundered Latin America's resources and helped create a perpetual state of widespread poverty and wealth disparity. From the obliteration of indigenous people by Spanish conquistadors to the destructive cycles of foreign debt, investment and capitalism, Galeano lays out the Latin American saga from 1492 to the 20th century. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...
...reason we haven't heard apologies yet is an increasingly widespread belief that "I didn't do anything illegal" is equivalent to "I didn't do anything wrong." Clearly it is not. How do we fix that? Dan Horsfall, Chanhassen, Minn...
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