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...these superficial flaws mask the real problem--the Core program itself. Not only does the current Core program fail to provide undergraduates with a true liberal arts education, but it also encourages the perception that students are ill-equipped to take departmental classes in fields other than their own. In fact, students rightly balk at taking watered-down Core classes when they could tackle the subject more intensively in a more substantive departmental course. Unfortunately, undergraduates are discouraged from enrolling in such non-concentration courses because they must still fulfill the Core requirements to graduate...
...still experiencing growing pains as a single mom with a little boy (Rory Culkin), a wayward younger brother (Mark Ruffalo) and a frustrating new boss (Matthew Broderick). In the process, Linney produces some of the year's most indelible acting moments. Watch her drive alone from an ill-advised rendezvous with her boss and see the emotions illuminate Linney's face like flickering candles - a smile, a jolt of sadness, a surge of joy. "She made a little play out of that," says the film's writer-director, Kenneth Lonergan. "Laughing and feeling guilty and laughing again...
...past few years, he has been stumbling from one pseudo crusade to another, likening every minor crisis--the expulsion of six roughnecks from a Decatur, Ill., high school; the supposed lynching of a Mississippi youth, which turned out to be a suicide--to the glorious civil rights battleground of Selma, Ala. Since last fall, he has been tussling with his former protege, Al Sharpton, who annoyed Jackson by launching a boycott of Burger King, which has long been one of Jackson's corporate allies. Not until last year's presidential campaign, when Jackson worked his heart out to help produce...
...caused by the Internet," says Gloria Hochman of the National Adoption Center, based in Philadelphia. "It's caused by the fact that there are many more people who want healthy babies than there are babies." The Internet has made the adoption world more efficient, for ill and for good. It's now easier for con artists to appear respectable with fancy sites, but it's also easier to legitimately match parents and children worldwide. The Web is especially helpful in finding homes for disabled and older kids, who are generally harder to place. In the past six months, 101 such...
...just read your contrasting articles on the dignified Laura Bush [NATION, Jan. 8] and her ambitious, material-girl predecessor, Hillary Clinton. It's great to know there's going to be at least one adult in the White House again. BOB PUTMAN Schaumburg, Ill...