Word: allowed
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...Cores, to cut down on the Core courseload--yet the report states cryptically that this plan was "infeasible.") Yet, of the Foreign Culture courses this year, six of 17 were conducted in a foreign language. If the concept is to reach unfamiliar cultures, wasn't the decision to allow courses in foreign languages to eat up so much of the Core a mistake...
...options seem clear enough. Allow departmental classes to count toward Core areas--specifically, allow selected courses in the history, language and anthropology departments count toward Foreign Cultures. Remove the foreign-language courses from the Core Program's coddling; they will survive as long as they can count. Turn those resources toward course on Africa, Australia, the Pacific Islands and the indigenous and non-English cultures in North America. Make these changes now, for next year...
Ransom says his good working relationship with the course's other teaching staff allow him to exude the high level of enthusiasm necessary to excite students with varied interests in his science Core class...
Though I think it is a mistake to allow Clinton's difficulties to color my impressions of Gore, who was put in the terrible position of having to stand by his boss while also maintaining political distance, I have lately found it more difficult to see the two men as separate when Gore uses a Clintonian expression...
...these days, perhaps essayists and polemicists hardened by the demands of written debate are sufficient compensation. But the cardinal virtue of written argument--its compatibility with dispassionate, well-reasoned debate--may also be its primary shortcoming. Written debate, precisely because it favors calm discussion to fiery rhetoric, does not allow charisma much of a forum. (Keyes is infinitely more convincing in person than on paper.) Consequently, debate devoid of the energy of charismatic orators like Keyes is less enjoyable for debaters and audiences alike...