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...math and science concentrators really that bogged down with the useless and ephemeral knowledge that the Core forces them to learn? FM sent out a Classics concentrator, the king of all useless and impractical humanities, and told him to find two math/science seniors and quiz them on some basic humanities knowledge. The contestants are Jan M. Cieslikiewicz ’03 and Daniel J. Shevchik ’03, both applied math concentrators. “I think I know a few of these, but not through my Core classes,” Shevchik says after reading the questions. Cieslikiewicz...
...environmental law courses—one on basic environmental law and the other on natural resources and the environment—were originally slated to be taught by HLS Professor Bruce L. Hay, who is informally “designated as the environmental law professor,” according to Giovinazzo...
...January, the class on natural resources was cancelled and another professor—Suffolk Law School Professor Steven Ferrey—was called in to replace Hay for the basic environmental law course...
...weeks of organizing in which local imams around the country, acting on orders from the central religious authority at Najaf, moved to fill the power vacuum left by the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. By creating militia and community organizations that have stopped looting and restored basic services, they have demonstrated their centrality to the project of stabilizing Iraq - the organizational ability and moral influence of the Shiite clerics makes them, or at least their blessing, indispensable to any new Iraqi authority...
...economics, the most popular concentration at Harvard, must take Ec 10. Those interested in Social Studies are frequently herded into the class as well. Even those who are not forced to take Ec 10 by departmental requirements find that the course is the only way to learn any basic economics...