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...opposed to, by way of example, an 11-person offering on “The Female Body in Modern America” are typically out of luck.Yale has solved this problem already. That school’s application-required Directed Studies program offers freshmen the opportunity to take three, year-long general education courses in literature, philosophy, and history and politics. The course is taught entirely in small seminars, and prominent faculty sign up for the same reason they teach freshmen seminars here—the opportunity to make an indelible mark on the minds of young and eager learners...
...toll worsens, there is some good news on the human front: the number of divorces in the Army declined in 2005, ending a four-year surge. According to Army data obtained by TIME that have not yet been officially released, there were 8,367 divorces in 2005, down from 10,477 in 2004. That number is still higher than the total before the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but officials, who concede that year-long deployments can strain marriages, are working on the issue. The Army has raised funding to $3.6 million a year for initiatives to help troops deal...
...year-long celebration of this milestone includes a lecture series by female scholars, faculty research presentations on gender and religion, and a retrospective on women at the school at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library...
...summit may not live up to its hype; few such gatherings do. But it is not unreasonable to see the meeting in Kuala Lumpur as a punctuation mark in the 60-year-long progress of Asia. The leaders of the 10 countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will meet together with those of Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, New Zealand - and China. The U.S will not be present. Some of the more breathless commentary on the summit sees parallels to the meeting of European leaders in Messina in 1955, which laid the foundations for what has become...
...megalomaniacal schemes, there is something surreal about the orgiastic frenzy of these people playing pretend. (Guys, wait 20 years and run for Senate.)It is lamentable that someone must win this race; students can best serve their real interests—giving the UC a recognition of the tedium and mundanity of its proper work—by not voting at all. And whoever does win might serve us well by taking a year-long rest.Travis Kavulla ’06-’07 is a history concentrator affiliated with Mather House. His column appears on alternate Mondays...