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...divided over the change. Thimann and Associate Professor of Chemistry Leonard K. Nash ’39 strongly supported the proposal, and Master of Leverett House and Professor of Zoology Leigh Hoadley was against it. The Biochemical Sciences concentration was popular among premeds since it allowed them to satisfy basic premed requirements in biology, chemistry, and physics while giving them the most flexibility in choosing electives. BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO SCIENCE As the 2005-2006 academic year came to a close, the Faculty Council voted to revamp the life science concentrations, adding five new concentrations and removing...
...civilians dead as planes battered Taliban fighters. Even before the convoy accident, Western diplomats say many frustrated young men were already looking for a provocation. "Underlying it all is the fact that young men have not seen any tangible change in their lives in terms of either jobs or basic services," said aid worker Holly Ritchie, who works for a British charity in Kabul. Much of their anger is directed squarely at the very people ostensibly in the country to help, the foreign aid agencies who oversee a portion of the billions of dollars in aid money that has flowed...
...concentrators, I do not want to leave the impression that I repent of the report on general education. In fact, what I wanted to emphasize was my strong support for the general education recommendations and my hope that the Faculty could soon reach consensus on its basic features—a major feature of which would be the broad, encompassing courses designed particularly for this program. I believe they will engender a significant renewal of innovative teaching, valuable for faculty and students together. CHARLES S. MAIER ’60 Cambridge, Mass. May 17, 2006 The writer is Saltonstall Professor...
...President who prides himself on setting clear goals for his staff has missed a basic point about metrics and war. The only real measure of defeating the insurgency is a reduction in their attacks and numbers - not ancillary questions like how many Iraqi units are fit to fight without U.S. assistance. A functioning Parliament could provide a release valve for rising sectarian tensions, but the fact is both disaffected Sunnis and Shi'ites are still using the threat of violence to gain political leverage. It is wrong to assume that each new step toward democracy, however laudable, will persuade jihadists...
...city's rebuilding. And the candidates Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Governor Mitch Landrieu had largely managed to sidestep the most troublesome questions facing the city: whether it is realistic to rebuild New Orleans' entire pre-Hurricane Katrina footprint - a daunting prospect for a city hard-pressed to provide basic services for its drastically reduced populace - and how it will handle things if another major hurricane hit the city. Most important, Ray Nagin, whose political obituary had been all but written last fall, is still mayor, having coasted to victory over Landrieu in Saturday's runoff election...