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...point here is not so much that the Core Curriculum fails to excite. The curricular review proposes substantial changes to the structure of the Core. Rather, complaints about the Core are nothing new and indeed surfaced almost as soon as the Core’s deficiencies were apparent, while College administrators did nothing. Their inattention to problems with the College’s general education program over the years is not an encouraging sign that future shortcomings will be addressed...
...sets for itself. The College strives, according to its mission statement, “to open the minds of students to...knowledge” and “to enable students to take best advantage of their educational opportunities.” Shoddy advising, an uninspiring and neglected Core Curriculum culture and closed-minded Liberalism in the classroom demonstrate that the College fails on those fronts it has identified as important. For not adequately addressing these failures, the curricular review disappoints...
...fury and chaos of the past three weeks in Iraq have had a profoundly sobering effect on Washington. With Shi'ite unrest spreading in the southern part of the country and fierce military battles erupting in Fallujah, the city west of Baghdad that has become the core of Sunni resistance, the Administration risked completely losing control in Iraq. The U.S.'s certitude that it could pacify Iraq on its own has been replaced with a new deference to the U.N., hopeful talk about a fresh Security Council resolution that would ratify the U.N.'s political role in Iraq and frank...
...Reserve Bank of New York. By relying more on temps and contract workers in good times and bad, the report says, "all else equal, this approach yields a smaller permanent work force, more temporary workers and more permanent layoffs." The temp-services industry calls this "strategic staffing"--keeping a core group of full-timers while adding and subtracting temporary and contract workers as needed. Employees call it a new career path--or a raw deal that deprives them of job benefits and security. Either way, more workers are going to have to get used...
...outsize impact on the rest of us. If the great men and women of ancient times were kings and queens, nautical explorers and epic poets, now we have superpower Presidents, technological titans and religious zealots who can upend the status quo in a nanosecond. Who is that core group today? Let us introduce you to the TIME 100, the most powerful and influential people...