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...students’ overall academic experience—have already turned in their preliminary findings to Associate Dean of the College Jeffrey Wolcowitz, who manages the curricular review, the only thing students and faculty uninvolved in the process have seen is a meager four-page “interim report.” This report is heavy on vague generalities and light on concrete details. The College community needs more before Wolcowitz and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 release their polished report this spring. We look forward to the final report, but we wish...
Other than the ideas contained in the four-page interim report, the handful of students who have attended one of the deans’ House visits noticed sparse mentions of big changes in the wings. Those directing the curricular review should trust students to realize that whatever administrators release is a work in progress. That is, after all, the point of releasing the working groups’ recommendations to the student body: to facilitate a fuller and more open debate about proposed changes. While Gross’s and Wolcowitz’s attempts to garner student input are appreciated...
TIME: How are you going to avoid the sense that the interim government has been handpicked...
...ground in Afghanistan, the Bush Administration--particularly in an election year--isn't likely to dispatch more than a few thousand to Haiti for much longer than the three months mandated by the U.N. last week. "We stepped up, and we are the lead elements of the interim force," said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who sees an international peacekeeping force of up to 5,000 in Haiti before long. But "obviously, we'd like to see some other country take that lead...
...Haiti, with few respected leaders and democratic institutions, will not be easy to turn around. The rebel hero Philippe has long been under investigation for ties to drug trafficking. (He denies any involvement.) Some of his ex-military allies are linked to atrocities, including civilian massacres. The constitutionally mandated interim President, Supreme Court Chief Boniface Alexandre, is barely recognizable to most Haitians, though he won applause for appointing an untainted national police chief last week. Alexandre's main task, to hold a special presidential election, is vexed by the fact that Haiti's parliament shut down in January and Aristide...