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...closed-distribution system, currently employed by Harvard and the University of Chicago, requires students to choose from an array of courses designed to fill core requirements. The open-distribution system, which allows students to choose departmental courses that satisfy broad area requirements, is used at Yale and Stanford. The other two options are the core class system, in which common courses would be required of all students, and the free choice model—which trusts that students, without any requirements at all, will work distribution into their course selections by their own free will...
...increasingly a resurgent Taliban. Two years after the government in Kabul was routed, black-turbaned militants are again stalking the dusty villages and towns of the Pashtun heartland. High-ranking Afghan sources tell TIME that the Taliban is trying to unite with the Pashtuns under one leadership. A core of 250 Taliban veterans is recruiting a fresh generation of young zealots from the refugee camps and madrasahs in the Pakistan border tribal areas. Tragic U.S. blunders like these help recruit them. Many Afghans who are not sympathetic to the Taliban are reluctant to help U.S. forces patrol their villages, fearing...
...folks? Minghella may be dodging the race issue (slavery is never mentioned), but he probably wants us to see the Confederacy both as one more lost cause worth fighting for, then fighting to get out of, and as a military metaphor for the impossible dream at the story's core--one of rebellious love, against all odds, that is worth pursuing no matter how it ends...
Collingwood is still worried about that decision. On the band's recent tour, opening for Matchbox Twenty, he says, "the hard-core fans were there, but there's a large contingent that just wants the single, or holds up the sign that says, I'M STACY'S MOM." He sighs. "I hope it doesn't haunt us." Schlesinger couldn't be happier. With the momentum from Stacy's Mom, the band has persuaded its label to do a video for its second single, Mexican Wine, in Brazil. There will be several yachts in the video and a helicopter too. "Actually...
...group is studying different curricular models, with options such as minor fields of study, clusters—subjects outside of students’ area of concentration that might not fit into a particular department—and large core courses dubbed “supercourses” that would provide every student with a common background...