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...League’s automatic berth to the NCAA tournament. This year’s Penn team just might be in position to make something of its invitation, too. Seniors Ibrahim Jaaber and Mark Zoller, the mighty Quakers who have terrorized the rest of the league over their four-year tenure in Philadelphia, bring the oft-hailed tournament experience to the Big Dance...
...when it established its Core Curriculum, which focused less on content than on mastering ways of thinking. Like Harvard's so-called Red Book standards of 1945, which helped inspire a generation of distribution requirements, the core had broad resonance at other major universities. Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines that proponents say will help clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light on the hurly-burly of more quotidian topics. "Students will...
...high school graduates annual grants of up to $6,000 (the amount is calibrated according to their length of residency in the city) for as many as five years of post-secondary education in institutions anywhere in the country. Recipients need only be accepted by an accredited two- or four-year college and maintain a "C" average...
...incoming membership of Brazil's upper and lower legislative bodies, the Senate and the House of Deputies, take their oaths of office this week. How well Lula deals with them will be vital in deciding not only how he shapes his second and final four-year term but also his political legacy. Although he has reduced poverty through a far-reaching project that gives money to the poor to keep their kids in school, he has failed to pass the structural reforms he promised during his first run for office...
...relate that he began busting broncos for money at age eight. As a teenager, he delivered newspapers on horseback in Texarkana's black slums. In 1949 he enrolled at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he was inspired by the can-do regimentation of the military. But after a four-year minimum Navy hitch, he resigned to join a firm synonymous with the kind of corporate bureaucracy Perot now claims to disdain...