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...fundamental to developing a mature perspective on global affairs. Without a strong core of geographic knowledge, analyzes of international events tend to be myopic at best and provincial at worst. Yet Harvard’s course catalog continues to feature a grand total of zero courses in the subject. If Harvard is to have any sort of meaningful core curriculum—one which must aim to create informed, global citizens—then the inclusion of a survey course in world geography is absolutely essential. Take Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, for example. All freshmen must...
...uses officers stationed overseas and trained in foreign languages, searches of subway passenegers, increased security at bridges and tunnels, radiation detectors, and a recently created counterterrorism bureau within the NYPD to combat terrorism. The department has a strong, “proactive” Internal Affairs Bureau and is subject to the scrutiny of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, both of which help to protect the rights of the public, he added. All of the panelists emphasized the importance of public confidence to the success of police forces. They suggested that such trust can be fostered through...
Rosenblat said although body-type attractiveness is subject to cultural taste, notions of a beautiful face remain constant...
...argue that secondary fields do not have significance—professional or otherwise, that is simply not the case (indeed, why have them if it were?). While some firms may discount them, others will take them into account. Secondary fields will be especially helpful for those pursuing careers in subject areas outside of their concentrations. For example, an English concentrator with economics as a secondary field might be seen as having an advantage over a Romance Language concentrator for an investment-banking job. While other factors do play a role, the demonstrated interest a secondary field indicates could definitely...
...President Bush took questions from graduate students Monday, one of them raised a touchy subject that he had not yet publicly addressed - a court filing last week revealing that he had personally authorized the use of pre-war intelligence to rebut an administration critic. Bush said he would not talk about the court case of former White House aide I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, citing "a serious investigation." But the President did say why the White House had released part of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq when it was under attack by former ambassador Joseph Wilson and others...