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...Core Committee does not seem to have recognized that students should be allowed to choose among the widest possible array of acceptable courses; its website still reads that Core offerings are “deliberately limited to 10 to 12 courses each year”—for what reason, one can only guess...
...media has even manipulated visual images of the conflict, which convey its desired message vividly and succinctly to the widest possible audience. During the early days of the most recent wave of Palestinian violence, for example, newspapers across the world, including The New York Times and the Boston Globe, published a photograph of a bloodied man crouching before a baton-wielding Israeli policeman, beneath which the following caption appeared: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting...
...pull back troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The U.N. Security Council ordered combatants to withdraw from the frontlines within two weeks of March 15. The resolution was adopted unanimously after a three-day U.N. conference of the six countries and three rebel groups involved in Africa's widest conflict. The plan calls for 3,000 U.N. personnel to monitor the withdrawal until a final timetable is drawn up by May 15. Congolese President Joseph Kabila agreed to the appointment of former Botswana leader Ketumile Masire as regional mediator...
Neither Harvard nor its students benefit when undergraduates are condemned by the course catalog to vast lecture classes or forced by artifacts of scheduling to courses that they dislike. Harvard can adopt requirements that expose students to varying approaches to knowledge while at the same time guaranteeing them the widest range of choice...
Jacqueline King, author of a recent study on the gender gap in college, emphasizes that it is widest among blacks (63% women to 37% men in the latest figures), Hispanics (57% to 43%) and, in her analysis, lower-income whites (54% to 46%). "It's not middle-class white young men who aren't going to college," she says. And an enrollment boom among older women is further skewing the numbers...