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...consistent with others in the department and the College. Therefore, departments must continually evaluate their courses to ensure that standards are uniformly enforced. The departments must ensure that each course it offers is considered rigorous and engaging by other professors in the field. To this end, each department should establish a committee to periodically review the rubrics, syllabi and grading practices of each of its courses...
Some argue that the queer studies program does not encompass a broad enough subject to establish an entirely new field of study. But as a discipline that explores the identity of a distinct social group, queer studies is as legitimate as, say, Afro-American studies. The fact that queer studies is devoted to a group defined by its sexuality rather than its cultural and historical background does not make it less worthy of academic pursuit...
...Abubakar: I came back because I am Indonesian and because I wanted to continue with my duty to establish [Islamic law] here. True Muslims must follow Islamic...
Then came the Kosovo war. When Serb forces withdrew in late June 1999 under NATO bombardment and peacekeeping forces arrived to establish a U.N. administration, Serbs who had been expelled from other parts of Kosovo made a last stand in the city. Mitrovica, which lies only two dozen kilometers from Serbia, is highly prized because of its massive Trepca coal mine. Clashes between Albanians and Serbs have left dozens killed and many more wounded. Former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke once called Mitrovica "the most dangerous place in Europe." In many ways, it still...
...just under three years, the U.N. administration in Kosovo has tried to establish its authority in the north of Mitrovica - and failed. A new attempt is now under way, spearheaded by Nebojsa Covic, Serbia's Vice Premier and the minister responsible for Kosovo. The province is still legally part of Serbia and Belgrade continues to pay the salaries of northern Mitrovica's civil servants, though elsewhere in Kosovo the U.N. is in charge. Covic hopes to persuade Ivanovic and others to play along with the U.N. in exchange for assurances about Serbs' long-term security. "They have to face reality...