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...Both the 1933 panic and the current credit crisis yield the same message: strong, cooperative leadership from the Fed is the key to inspiring confidence in both consumers and major private sector actors. Like any executive action, this leadership demands rationale??a justification for others to invest. Geithner must look to the failures of his predecessors in order to succeed...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: Bridging the Capitalist Divide | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

...curriculum that is responsive to the conditions of the twenty-first century,” students graduating before 2013 are left to wonder: are we receiving—gasp—a twentieth century education? And more importantly, is the search for a new “rationale?? behind educational breadth a subtle admission of just how badly practical flaws undermine the current system? In short, yes. The Core Curriculum so poorly represents the ideal of general education that the community has no need for it. Unconstrained by the etiquette of a faculty post, we can say that...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: Rotten to the Core | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...will graduate before seeing Gen Ed implemented should not be constrained by this confessedly unsuccessful program. We should not be required to sacrifice quality in our own education, simply to buttress the ridiculous illusion that the Core’s primary fault is only that its “rationale?? needs updating. As often with deeply flawed structures, the present period of re-evaluation and rebuilding calls for an immediate moratorium on the program itself...

Author: By Max J Kornblith | Title: Rotten to the Core | 1/9/2008 | See Source »

...evidence of [adviser David] Niles ever doing much for blacks, but as an observant Jew, he devoted much of his energies to the creation of Israel.” This flies in the face of a 1987 Political Science Quarterly study concluding that Niles “developed the rationale?? for the Truman-appointed Civil Rights Committee, whose work led to the desegregation of the federal workforce and the armed services. Niles is just one more victim of Perret’s scattershot storytelling...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Finding Perret’s Fictions | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...Moral Reasoning” requirement. “My general impression of the proposal,” Burgard concluded in an e-mail statement, “is that—not in all the general education courses it would include and encourage, but in its principles and rationale??it is anti-academic, even anti-intellectual.” Aware of these criticisms, Simmons said, she looks forward to the review process. “We’re very eager for faculty not only to share their thoughts with us, but also with each other...

Author: By Johannah S. Cornblatt and Samuel P. Jacobs, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty To Discuss Gen Ed Report | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

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