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...front of the scenes, Pilbeam was a member of the Task Force on General Education whose winter report has been at the center of the Faculty’s attention this semester. He co-chairs the Education Policy Committee, the group responsible for delayed concentration choice and the introduction of secondary fields. From 1987 to 1992, Pilbeam was dean of undergraduate education...
...seat in 1989. With that as a political base, he fought successful campaigns for the chairmanship in 1990 of the Russian Supreme Soviet, the former parliament, and then the newly created presidency in June 1991. Once in office as Russia's first freely elected President, he faced the overpowering task of more or less instantly bringing democracy and capitalism to a country that had never truly known the former and had practically forgotten the latter...
...Kennedy and his four colleagues continue to get their way, women’s right to control their own bodies will quickly slip away. Indeed, any task that requires such a dramatic legal shift as outlawing abortion will only be accomplished by chipping away at existing protections. In fact, the common phrase for intact dilation and extraction—“partial-birth abortion”—is a conservative construct that has reframed entire schools of thought on the issue...
Competition will be fierce this weekend as Harvard strives for the usually contradictory task of beating Yale and competing to be Bulldog teammates this summer...
...events at Virginia Tech, the rewriting of Virginia's commitment laws was already a major focus of a yearlong study of the state's mental health laws launched last fall by Leroy R. Hassell Sr., the chief justice of the Virginia State Supreme Court. Zdanowicz, who serves on the task force, said the chief justice had become concerned that the criminal justice system was, in effect, becoming the state's mental health care system, where jails are poor substitutes for failing and too few mental health care facilities. The Cho shootings will bring even closer scrutiny of the imminent danger...