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Further inconsistencies can be found throughout the Core. Unfortunately, these problems have not been addressed, and the petition process has become more rather than less arbitrary in recent years. Students who entered the college before Sept. 1999 were given greater flexibility with respect to exemptions from the Science A and B Core areas. Those who received a score of 4 or 5 on the Advanced Placement (AP) Biology exam could receive credit for Science B, while scores of 4 or 5 on either AP Chemistry or AP Physics counted for Science A credit. (Students could not, however, receive exemptions from...
...petition process does not provide students with the flexibility necessary for intellectual exploration. Rather, it reinforces the idiosyncrasies of a Core Program that corrals students into a few substandard courses without providing them a broad-based liberal arts education...
...glacier, a two-month battle for a row of Himalayan peaks at Kargil in 1999?not to mention a tragic 12-year insurgency within Kashmir?the leaders of India and Pakistan appear interested in ending the hostilities. At least, they are looking for ways to do so. A peace process is beginning...
...even dares to talk about issues of substance?Who will get Kashmir? Will Kashmiris get to vote on the final decision??and even an outline of a settlement is far away. The undeniably bad news: extremists on both sides have the power to literally blow the peace process to bits. Some are trying, with grenade attacks, suicide missions and bombs...
...breakthrough?including Kashmiris themselves in the process?amounts to the first genuine step forward since 1972, when Pakistan and India signed the Simla agreement that turned the Line of Control into their unofficial temporary border. What's needed now are cool heads, compromise and logic, especially considering that India and Pakistan are the world's newest nuclear powers. Kashmir's own people are demanding to be heard, and many of their voices are far less strident than in the past. "We have to forget the bitter yesterday and find a permanent solution. We can no longer afford to live...