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This proposal is governed by two basic principles. First, before graduating from the College, every student should be familiar with the methods of inquiry employed in the study of the social and natural sciences, literature, the arts, foreign cultures, philosophy, history and mathematics. Second, any graduation requirements intended to guide students toward this familiarity should give them the maximum degree of flexibility to shape their own academic careers...
...West] has a really engaging personality and I think that's the basic reason a lot of people, including me, are holding out on taking the class," Ezekwueche says...
...woman should have to choose between her child and her education. My friend was, in a sense, lucky--her family and friends were ready and willing to assist her. Few pregnant students are given such support. Pregnant women need basic options such as housing, child care, and financial aid. College health clinics need to make women aware of all the options available to them. Men need to understand that they are equally responsible for the child they helped to conceive...
...Those are the basic issues that are not yet being discussed. Instead, like wary boxers in the early rounds, India and Pakistan are circling and testing each other. At the top are two very different men: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who at 76 is one of the country's most experienced and respected politicians, and Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf, 58, who wants to restore his nation's international credibility and, even more important, its severely challenged internal stability. They each know this is likely to be their last term in office and both want...
Training is divided into two stages. The first three-week session gives religious education and basic knowledge of how to handle firearms. Once a volunteer has passed that course, which costs the organization about $330 per trainee, he is sent to a designated city or town, often near his birthplace, to work at the group's offices and become more involved with the organization...