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...country is headed for very deep trouble," Gore told TIME. "I wish it were not so, but I believe that with all my heart. I think that our economic plan has zero chance of working. I think that it is wrong at its core. I think that our foreign policy, based on an openly proclaimed intention to dominate the world, is a recipe for getting our country in some of the worst trouble it's ever been in." Bush, Gore says, has compiled the worst economic record since Herbert Hoover. "For Democrats to lose the Senate and to lose ground...
...debate over the Core recently, much has been touted about the importance of a liberal arts education, and it occurs to me that what is lost in the breadth that such an education demands is a depth that makes it radiant. We read to finish, not mull over, debate, question, create. In our training to maximize efficiency, we somehow lose time and space in which to be profound...
...Slow Down” letter singles out a culture of overcommitment as the cause of an increasingly more frantic pace of life. Of course—8 a.m. poster runs and four-hour rehearsals leave less time for much else. But it seems our conversations about restructuring the Core, rethinking our extracurriculars and rescheduling our courseloads, all meander around one question that is rarely addressed: what is the nature of our learning...
...reminded us that creative writing would take a different kind of time and mental space—less structured, more open-ended. But why is it that the kind of learning done in a creative writing course should be different from the kind done in a tutorial or a Core class...
...think you gotta go,” Matt V. Anderson ’03 said. “Everyone will be pleased with how hard core they are for sticking it out—and they’ll also be really drunk...