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...system of General Education makes its way through Faculty discussions and debates, with a vote on legislation possible as early as this spring, the demise of the oft-maligned Core Curriculum lies on the not-so-distant horizon.But for current undergraduates—from seniors to underclassmen—that horizon is just out of reach, and the Core is still very much a fact of life. “People do realize that students will be under the Core requirements [for some time].... The Faculty debates that are going on are about the future, but students are under...
...love he has for Africa and the bitterness he has as well," says DiCaprio. And that's not all he learned. "They drink a hell of a lot of beer and Jägermeister," says the star, no wimp in the party department, with a chuckle. "That was their hard-core drink of choice: flaming Jägermeister shots, which I can't hang with...
...turmoil. "I don't think anyone denies that there's a morale problem at the CDC," says Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. But he attributes much of the upheaval to government-wide belt tightening rather than to Gerberding's reorganization, noting that core programs at the CDC have been cut 4.5% in each of the past two fiscal years. He and other experts believe that the agency needs at least $15 billion a year to do all the jobs it has been assigned--nearly twice the current budget of $8.5 billion...
Such speculative interest could evaporate overnight if the market cools, of course. But that's where the non-Chinese buyers come in. The international contemporary-art market is highly cyclical--many would say current prices are at all-time highs--but there remains a core group of wealthy art collectors who will be comparatively unaffected by external conditions. It's the buyers from that group who are now turning their attention to China, argues banker and avid collector Carl Kostyal. "About 10 to 20 collectors are at the leading edge of contemporary art globally," says Kostyal. "They are already buying...
...maudlin undercurrent before it ends. While Anderman’s performance is more skilled than Carr’s, Nat fades into extraneousness by the end of the play. She is the kind of air-headed mother who their children hate to love, but Anderman lacks the reasonable core than would have given her some weight in the story.Troy Deutsch as Jason, the teen-age driver of the car that killed the boy would have suffered similarly if the script had not shoved him into the play’s climactic moment. Jason is an amalgamation of every nerdy-sensitive...