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...President's Commission on Strategic Forces, chaired by lieutenant General Brent Scowcroft, was originally charged with finding a basing mode for the MX missile after Congress correctly rejected "dense pack." The Commission included such defense specialists as Alexander Haig and Harold Brown, and The New Republic calls their product "one of the most serious and sophisticated official documents of the nuclear era." The members of the Commission made three basic recommendations. Discard the notion of U.S. strategic inferiority by considering simultaneously bombers, missiles and submarines, deploy 100 MXs, each with 10 warheads, in hardened Minuteman silos, and for the future...
First it was in the "off" mode, going scoreless for the first 16:32. Later the Crimson reversed that, keeping the Minutemen off the scoreboard during a 19:16 stretch. And then it was Harvard's turn again, as it hit a 15:06 dry spell...
...result is that, as under the Gen Ed system, students devote about half their courses to their concentration, eight to the Core, and the remaining quarter to electives. But unlike in Gen Ed, the student with a sincere desire not only to learn modes of inquiry, but also to gain an educated person's familiarity with a subject outside his major--be it Fine Arts 13, History 71, or Shakespeare--must do so by sacrificing two of a precious eight elective slots. These slots are also expected to suffice for truly far-flung intellectual exploration, such as cross-registration, freshman...
...Core planners' major argument--that Core courses teach "modes of inquiry" and "habits of mind" rather than mechanically transmitting a body of facts--has some merit. Surely these modes are useful. But the great fallacy in the Core as implemented so far is that the two approaches--the "mode of inquiry" and the survey course--are somehow mutually exclusive. They are not, and a well-taught survey course invariably transmits a case study in intellectual approach along with the working knowledge of a field that makes such an approach meaningful. For evidence, Core planners should look to their own most...
...Even if we got that much aid, we would still have to be in some sort of 'cut' mode," Rossi said. "This won't be the kind of year where someone will just say that here's a million dollars, what do we want to increase with it," he added...