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Last year the General Education committee of the curricular review recommended that the College abolish the Core Curriculum in favor of departmental distribution requirements...
...been attacked by students for questioning the logic behind the recent addition of a “global and diverse cultures” requirement for incoming entrants to Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Just like Harvard’s own Foreign Cultures Core, this new requirement is designed to give journalism students international perspective...
Most of the people I’ve spoken to since Nov. 2 don’t say we need to jettison core values to win rural America. The problem, they say, is not substance, but tone. Democrats, they say, are arrogant. But I think it’s a little disrespectful to suggest that rural Americans voted for Bush because Democrats sounded snobby. Rural Americans aren’t angry because Democrats support equal rights with a certain tone. They’re angry because we support equal rights. And even if our nominee runs away from social liberalism...
...when he defeated the popular Governor William Weld in their 1996 Senate race. Kerry just needed to be plausible. His supporters saw his serial explanations of his Iraq-war position as a mark of thoroughness and subtlety; opponents were alarmed by a sense that he was guided by no core beliefs but was only searching for a politically safe place to land. Bush was proud of setting a vision and then delegating even big decisions to a small group of advisers; Kerry was famously surrounded by enough advisers to fill a small liberal-arts college but still spent four weeks...
...still fresh memory in 2004, was more than a neutral foul-up to Gore supporters. The premature call for Bush was first made at Fox News, where Bush's cousin John Ellis was analyzing exit polls. That became the model for the liberals' pro-Bush-bias narrative: a core of Bushite media was pushing G.O.P. spin, attacks and talking points, and cowing the mainstream media into running with it. "The media are a kind of prisoner of the fear of being labeled liberal," says Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media? "This gives the right enormous license to mislead...