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...make Western leaders nervous about committing their own troops. In Berlin last week, the Congo election prompted bitter debate when the German government announced it was prepared to dispatch some 500 troops at the head of a proposed 1,500-strong European Union military force in a four-month mission. Supporters of the German coalition government questioned whether such a small number of troops could really make a difference, and warned against mission creep. "The probability that we are not getting out in four months is high," said Johannes Kahrs of the Social Democratic Party, himself a military reservist...
Harvard University has drifted from its mission of educating students, and it now privileges student satisfaction over intellectual growth, former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrote in this week’s edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education. “Harvard teaches students but does not make them wise,” he wrote. “They may achieve extraordinary excellence in both academic and extracurricular endeavors, but the whole educational experience does not cohere.” The article, adapted from a part of the conclusion to Lewis?...
...system would suffer the Core’s chronic problems; it would be a contrived and complex system that pigeonholes students into taking specific classes and creates captive audiences with no incentive for professors to improve.Proponents of Moral Reasoning, however, claim that the University has a unique ethical mission to educate informed citizens who have the tools to think critically about moral issues. By forcing students to read great texts in political and ethical theory, they argue, Harvard can get students to start thinking about key questions and potential answers. Moral Reasoning, in other words, forces students to take their...
...that are currently posted are from 2003-2004. Edie Irons, program associate for TICAS, said the site will be updated as soon as new data becomes available. “There are limitations to the conclusions that can be drawn using the data that exists, but part of our mission is to push for better data collection,” Irons said. Economicdiversity.org is sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which gives grants to solve social and environmental problems, according to the foundation’s web site...
...sometimes stick out.“People would ask me, ‘Oh are you Chinese? You don’t look Chinese,’” said Frommer.She added, though, that she felt her presence contributed to the Chinese Student Association’s mission.“I think the point of the organization is not only to gather people together that are of the same background, but to educate [other] people about the culture,” she said.—The next story of the series will consider the complexity of interracial...