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...recent faculty essays on aspects of the Harvard College Curricular Review have been the most exciting contribution to the debate about reforming the college so far. The essays focus primarily on the general education aspect of the curriculum, and their proposals range from defenses of the Core Curriculum to recommendations for a distributional requirement or even suggestions for new integrative, interdisciplinary approaches. A central theme of the professors’ thoughts is the need for students to learn to think and read critically, a process which Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann terms “the training of judgment...
...1990s and the Bush Administration's top hunter since January, richly fills in the previous portrait of a paranoid and brutal dictator who believed that weapons of mass destruction (WMD) were the prime tools with which to advance his extravagant ambitions. Drawn from lengthy interrogations of the core Iraqi leadership and Saddam during their months in U.S. custody, the Duelfer report sheds fresh light on the dictator's inner motivations and artful deceptions...
...core, the Bush Administration's rationale for going to war with Iraq was simple enough. As the President stated in the fall of 2002, Iraq "possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons, [and] it is seeking nuclear weapons." The central conclusion of the newly issued Duelfer report is also fairly simple: many U.S. assumptions about the state of Iraq's weapons were just plain wrong. Here's a look at some of the key misjudgments--and what we know...
Devotees of fairy tales need not wait until next year for Fairy Tales Core professor Maria Tatar’s explanations of them. They need only head to the Harvard Bookstore today...
...will Ladder Theory be coming soon to a Core near you? Though several professors from the Sociology, Psychology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality departments declined comment, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker gave the impression that it may take a second Curricular Review before Ladder Theory finds its way into Harvard sourcebooks...