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...could certainly use a sexy model to turn heads its way. Only a few years ago, VW was riding high with iconic cars like the Jetta and New Beetle, vehicles that delivered performance and brand charisma. But BMW's Mini swiped the Beetle's cool factor, and lots of competitors have been making midsize value machines better than Jetta. Sales in the U.S. plunged 37% from 2001 through 2005, when VW sold just 224,195 cars. With a market share of just 1.4%, it's outsold even by Kia. The North American business is a bleeder too, losing nearly...
...course, one might say a discussion of any text, literature or history or politics, involves moral discussion and judgment. I am, of course, not blind to the moral force of humanistic inquiry, a point that Martha Nussbaum, among others, has made quite well. But the current model of university education seems particularly divorced from human action; its practical dimension seems to have been outsourced to extracurricular groups on campus. Yet mere intellectualism cannot in any way be said to replace the satisfaction of religious instruction...
...wild card, of course, is Harvard’s quarterback situation. While the Tigers’ signal-calling is a model of consistency under senior Jeff Terrell, the Crimson can’t reliably say who is going to start from week to week. There was the induction, injury, and comeback of Chris Pizzotti, the Jeff Witt interlude, the abortive Richard Irvin experiment, and now Liam O’Hagan’s return from suspension...
...Core had long been threatening education like a gang of Carthaginians invading the Republic. Only in 2002 was it finally pronounced inadequate and in need of replacement. Its model of awkward categories and trivial information had led to a crisis of liberal education at the College, and so a review process began. Four years down the road, there is a feeling of déjà vu; we are left where we started and signs of stagnation abound. The President that started the review was ousted, but not before he ousted the Dean that spearheaded the effort. The faculty still...
...probably expected to just deal with it. Schoolchildren are a different matter altogether. They may not be briefed on the roots of such Islamic mores, but they'll still wonder why they can't see their teacher's face. I wouldn't want a niqab-wearer as a role model for my child, and I wouldn't want to explain that his teacher considers her bare face somehow immoral. It is ironic that living in an Islamic theocracy, this is something I would never have to do, while non-Muslim British parents are being asked to do so on grounds...