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...shocking. The availability of lecture videos hits numbers harder than would the bubonic plague.Oh, the dreaded QR. But do not to fear, Humanities Harvard, even if you can’t pass a course on counting people. Everyone knows the Core’s raison d’tre is to provide a curriculum in cocktail conversation, and any numbers that come our way over a cold martini will be more than manageable...
...History Boys” does not have one theme; its profundity lies in dealing with an eclectic but complimentary variety of issues, all of which relate to elite education. Bennett’s play addresses homosexuality, and literature’s raison d’ tre; it analyzes legacies, but also the understandability of the Holocaust; it tries to define money’s role in education while addressing gender neutrality and manliness...
Still, social justice remains the Forum’s guiding focus and raison d’tre...
Treason, lies and recession have sheltered Democrats from the bitter realization that they, like the Red Sox, have grown to depend on their evil other—the axis of Bush, Rove and Fox News—for their identity and raison d’tre. Every boast that backfires, every crony that cheats and every Iraqi that blows himself up arouses a bitter, Bostonian satisfaction in Democratic hearts. Democrats have adopted that corrosive combination of helplessness and hopelessness that finds as much delight in an epic Yankee loss in Game 7 of the World Series, back...
...loses that, it has lost its raisond'tre," Bretta says.CrimsonDavin J. ChewSAVING SOMERVILLE: Somerville MayorMICHAEL E. CAPUANO hopes to preserve the city'sunique character amid an influx of newresidents...