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...Although the Task Force’s initial report underwent several structural permutations—such as the excision of a “Reason and Faith” requirement—its ostensible raison d’tre of preparing undergraduates for global citizenship remained, in spirit at least, largely intact. Yet Harvard’s attempts to generally educate its students, despite the apparently hollow platitudes about the importance of understanding traditions and historically-developed ideas, will not include any mandatory study of the past...
...results of a paternity test were due to be revealed yesterday, but instead left a frenzied media on tenterhooks until next week. It’s a shame she isn’t around to enjoy the mania, since meaningless fame was her raison d’tre, but this foul death has given her life meaning as a farcical parable of ugly modern life...
...Martha Stewart—exotic is the new plain, and weird is the new normal. Unfortunately, each is proving that it can be just as boring as its predecessor. “Taking the center from the margins” seems to be the raison d’tre of several of the best films produced in culture-war-America over the past year, from the spectacular “Brokeback Mountain” to the delightful “Little Miss Sunshine.” But director Steven Shainberg and screenwriter Erin Cressinda Wilson—the creative...
...Type A’s—an all-girl rock band made up of five Harvard seniors—and is a member of the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll. But despite these other activities, design has always been her raison d’tre...
...report induced a good deal of eye-rolling: Not only was the center’s raison d’tre dubious, but the proposed floor plan was incorrigibly lame...