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...controversy is, at its core, a tug of war between researchers interested in pushing back the frontiers of scientific discovery, and neighbors who will see the project’s impact in their own back yards...
...some 300 years of its existence, Harvard has been a school enamored with the virtues of liberal education. The term’s meaning has remained roughly the same, now embodied in today’s Core. To be, as Larry Summers puts it, a member of the “educated company of man,” one must have an empathy and understanding for a variety of subjects. And in earlier days, this also meant a fundamental set of knowledge: all Harvard students read Aristotle, Plato and Kant...
About 30 years ago, this system, still practiced in Columbia’s “Great Books” structure, was tossed out, giving rise to the Core, which was supposed to teach students methods to “approach knowledge.” Yet, in its current implementation, most Historical Studies courses do not teach “approaches” to history; they teach history itself. Most syllabi to be found in the Core will be more or less blunt about the fact that little separates the course from a real history course, except, of course...
...date that would be forever fixed in Gilley's brain. Twenty-four hours earlier, the country-music legend had received a call at his home in Pasadena, Texas, summoning him to the site. Upon seeing the charred ruins, Gilley, a showman to the core, with a diamond-encrusted "MG" necklace and absurdly thick hair, turned to a bandmate and asked, "How am I gonna keep you guys working...
...Gilley is not there, he's on the road with his 11-member band. "The energy that made him want to play and perform and entertain still exists," says Jim Ed Norman, president of Warner Bros. Records Nashville and a producer of several Gilley albums. "It's a primal, core essence of what artists are." Gilley also owns restaurants in Houston and Branson and licenses his name to a Las Vegas venue in addition to the Dallas club...