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...Geography is not a University subject.” Other American universities took heed, and within a short period of time, geography departments all over the U.S. found themselves disbanded or ignored. Conant was wrong. If Harvard considers it important for students to be familiar with the basics of the human genome, or with methods of literary interpretation, then surely the ability to analyze global events in a rigorous and meaningful way ranks as a similarly critical skill. It’s time, at long last, for an introductory course in geography. It doesn’t matter whether this...
...fact remains that students, especially students with a basic sense of the odds of the game, can make significant sums of money playing. This winter, for example, Jeremy T. Warshauer ’08 won $10,000 by finishing in the top three in an online tournament sponsored by truepoker.com. Warshauer said at the time that he would set aside a couple of hundred dollars from the prize money to gamble with...
...government should be taking down the militias, with Sadr's Mehdi Army and the SCIRI-affiliated Badr brigade the focus of U.S. military action in recent months. But disarming these groups won't be any easier for a new prime minister than it was for Jaafari, because the basic dynamic won't have changed...
...truth, no one came out of the standoff better off than France's uncompromising younger generation - once again. Many observers view the current revolt, in contast to ideologically driven predecessors in French protest, as a symbol of a spoiled generation unwilling to deal with basic economic realities. The more radical protesters, however, retort that they are blazing a trail against globalization, and there is no denying that they managed essentially to block the country's much needed economic liberalization...
...Spats over registration are perhaps the least interesting element of homeschooling, which raises many of the most basic questions about the needs of children. Most people's gut reaction is that children simply must go to school. Perhaps parents can look after the three Rs, they say, but nothing beats school for preparing the child for life beyond home. There's probably some truth in that. Yet it's fair to ask why, as a society, we assume that a minimum of 10 years at school is appropriate for all children any more than a spell in the Army...