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...overhaul of Harvard’s Core Curriculum is one of the most important projects facing administrators, the Faculty, and students today. Thus far, the Committee on General Education has made some encouraging decisions for the future of Harvard undergraduate education. The committee’s preliminary assessments indicate an advocacy of distribution requirements over three general subject areas, as well as two mandatory Harvard College Courses that will be “broad in scope and ambition.” But while distribution requirements will allow for more student freedom in class choice, the committee’s failure...
...core of the PSP: the games. Of the five provided for review - Wipeout Pure, Twisted Metal Head-on, Gretzky NHL, NBA and World Tour Soccer - none strike me as a must-have the way Grand Theft Auto became for the PlayStation 2. Still, they are pretty incredible for such a small device. The graphics and game play sophistication rival that of Sony's home system, the PS2. The sports games almost exactly mimic their "big-screen" counterparts with full rosters that you can manipulate and on-the-fly playmaking. Wipeout Pure, part of the futuristic Wipeout racing series...
...sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching,” Willig says. But she acknowledges that “grading student papers actually was very helpful.…It makes you think a great deal about structure...
...attempts in the Florida legislature last week intended to save Schiavo, telling TIME it was "the wrong vote." Some Florida Republicans say they winced when DeLay insisted that keeping Schiavo and patients like her alive was more important than "the sanctity of marriage"--a concept, of course, at the core of the Christian right's agenda on issues like gay marriage. Whatever Terri Schiavo's fate, the continuing debate promises to be anything but dignified. --By Tim Padgett. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Michael Peltier
...this Star Wars game: no Jar Jar, no Ewoks and absolutely no smooching, just a bunch of grizzled space commandos kicking Geonosian butt (and several other species of butt) for the greater glory of the Republic. (It all takes place between Episodes II and III.) Game play combines hard-core first-person combat with some brainier tactical-squad-based action. If the past few movies didn?t have enough military edge for you, don?t worry, it?s all right here. (For PlayStation 2 and Xbox...