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...which students must choose eight. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability and practicality of some sort of Gen Ed revision, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. The idea of a wide variety of required courses in a loose framework, as embodied by the Gen Ed principle, is desirable. The Core goes too far in the opposite direction...
Peterson had been the key figure in planning for Harvard's upcoming capital fund drive. He said that although he is proud of his achievement in his vice presidency here--including setting up a framework for the fund campaign--he does not feel that he is indispensible to the drive's success...
...very important that the U.S. not be identified with the status quo, which, in general, is the way it used to be identified. President Carter has identified the U.S. with change in world affairs, thereby giving us the opportunity to shape the nature of change and provide the framework for it. That's a fundamentally important consideration, in terms of the U.S. relationship with the world as a whole. The U.S. in the past was perceived as being antichange-and perhaps occasionally...
Britain has no written constitution?simply a collection of precedents embodied in acts of Parliament and historic understandings that have grown out of political crises and conflicts over the centuries. In the accepted framework of British politics, Heath had no choice but to accept his sovereign's verdict. The Queen, for her part, could not have spoken out publicly; she would have seemed to be usurping the power of Parliament. There is a built-in fiction to the British system: namely, the Cabinet is no more than the servant of the Crown. The reverse is closer to the truth...
...group's seeming misfit was the moody indoorsman Raymond Chandler, who told his host that he had learned how to build suspense by constructing his own characters on the framework of an Erle Stanley Gardner story. The Master was pleased; he never read anything but the competition and found them all, including Agatha Christie, inferior plotters. Yet he could be generous in praise of others' use of character and atmosphere...