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...going to be irrelevant," says Andrew Krepinevich, president of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, "because in nine to 12 months we will have lost the war." Those are grim words coming from a retired Army officer and West Point graduate, but they raise an important concern: No one wants to be the last soldier to die for a losing cause...
...Educational Testing Service (ETS) has scrapped plans to revise its popular examination for prospective graduate students, citing concerns about access to the test. The proposed revision of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) was slated to take effect in October. It would have tacked 90 minutes on to the two-and-a-half hour test and eliminated some question formats, including analogies. It would also have made cheating more difficult, since the test would only be administered 35 days a year, with a completely new test developed each time. The test is currently administered more than 250 times a year...
...nations when the infrastructure of our own nation is choking on congested traffic both on the roads and in the air as well as an antiquated system of roads, bridges, airports, water and sewage systems. I would be hesitant to say that we have spent too much time being concerned on what is going on abroad, because that does have an impact on us. But I think we have not spent enough time thinking about our own nation and its strength. And its strength not only being the military strength, buts its economic viability with the kind of infrastructure, education...
...past” in the legislation implementing the proposed new general education curriculum. The amendment will likely be taken up at next Tuesday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Along with nine other amendments released to professors yesterday, the history proposal represents significant faculty concern about a general education program that Harvard’s leaders are hoping will be approved by professors by the end of the academic year. The amendment aims both to insert “history” into the title of the proposed “Culture and Belief?...
...punk rock kid. He kind of writes like that: staccato, tongue-in-cheek.” In particular, the graphic novel visualization stands out as eye-catching, drawn in a style reminiscent of the ultra-violent “Sin City.”Robbins expresses his initial concern that such visuals would lend to the fetishization of the violence of war.“I definitely was concerned, when we first started getting the images back and looking at the animation, that it looked too cool,” he says. “I feel a tiny conflict...