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...adopt the constitution or do you wish your country to leave the E.U.?" But a no vote doesn't automatically mean ejection or even the death of the constitution. A more likely scenario, says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, is that a "messy core" of countries would proceed while the naysayers would get some kind of associate membership. That's the sort of compromise that has worked in the past when E.U. treaties have run aground. It may not be very tidy, but at least it would save the constitution's framers from having...
...projects. I’m definitely taking a journal, writing a fair amount, writing for the sake of reflection as opposed to for the sake of a core class,” he said. He will also bring a small guitar and books for pleasure reading...
...While the editorial is entitled “Doubting Douthat,” (Editorials, Feb. 16) I think that there is actually very little disagreement between us as to the overall state of Harvard academics. The editors concede that “there are major flaws in the current Core Curriculum, the academic advising system, and even the apathy of some professors and teaching fellows,” and they allow that “perhaps there has been a move in the American university system away from fact-based learning—and perhaps Douthat is right that this...
...being “Eurocentric” in my complaints about the curriculum—which I am, I suppose, to the extent that I think any education needs to be rooted, to some extent, in a common cultural tradition. But I would be delighted to see a reformed Core Curriculum that included a vast swathe of “foreign cultures” requirements, so long as those requirements were selected out of a concern for “fact-based learning,” rather than the deep silliness of “approaches to knowledge...
...last-minute bill not on the Undergraduate Council’s (UC) official agenda last night, a core group of representatives called for “free speech and open academic inquiry” in a nod to the controversy surrounding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership of Harvard...