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...After Madrid, Who's Next? The bombs of March 11 rocked Spain to its core [March 29], and we are all suffering and asking why. The day after the attack, 11.5 million people across this nation took to the streets in solidarity to demonstrate against terrorism. The time has come for a comprehensive and centralized global counterterrorism organization. Existing agencies, such as Europol (European Police Office), have often proved ineffective, and police officials have preferred to contact one another personally instead of using a centralized institution. The warmhearted and hardworking Spanish people will surely endure, but as in New York...
...explores Henry's life from every possible angle, restlessly following minor characters through love stories, comedies and epic quests, skipping across decades of time and continents of space--The Known World is a glorious, enthralling, tangled root ball of a book--but always returning to the story's tragic core. Slowly, terrifyingly, it dawns on us that although Henry has his free papers, he's the product of an evil world, and his soul will never be free. When it was published last summer, Jones' book seemed like a very mature first novel. With the benefit of eight months' reflection...
Chicago’s Core requires students to take specific sequences of courses in different subjects. The school asks Core professors to teach outside of their areas of expertise, Boyer says, to encourage interdisciplinary education...
Indeed, some of the proposals that will go before the Faculty this May, such as moving away from the Core and pushing concentration choice to a later time, seem to align Harvard with its peers, not set it apart...
...Many versions of general education have been prominent: Harvard’s General Education was in its time; the Core curriculum also; Columbia’s two-year mandatory program in the Western tradition; the University of Chicago’s Great Books curriculum in its time. All you can say is that these schools produced both well-trained and ill-trained students,” says Vendler...