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...exist as but another confusing level in Harvard's academic advising labyrinth. Their formal role in the Houses largely depends on the purview of their House master. And while a handful of tutors do take very active roles in running House programs or advising students, the majority have few actual responsibilities. They are not supposed to be glorified proctors, and they behave as much. They may ask us to keep it down at night, but don't seem to care too much about the studies--or other things--going on in our rooms...
...Afterschool programming] is really beginning to be a serious academic field," Noam said. "Up until now, people in the field of education have focused closely just on actual schooling...
...College students in international issues is not yet being slaked. When our new Center for International Development introduced a series of international programs for undergrads this past year, hundreds of students have been active participants. But unlike other major universities, Harvard College has done relatively little to encourage actual travel and study abroad during the College years. And so far there has been little systematic use of the new information technologies that could dramatically expand the scope and coverage of teaching materials, for example, through live videoconferencing of lectures or joint seminars with students in other parts of the world...
...role of a labor doula varies depending on the needs and desires of the parents. For some people, the support of a doula is more important after the actual labor. Ruth Callahan of New York City owns Doula Care, a service that provides postpartum home services, including help with breast-feeding, new-baby and new-mother care. The doulas might even run errands or baby-sit siblings. "I was much more interested in the transition into motherhood--teaching them about breast-feeding and helping them gather their confidence," says Callahan. Doulas tend to specialize in either labor or postpartum work...
...painter and an art historian; his mother Elizabeth Spiro was a painter who liked to be known as Baladine and had a long, intense friendship with one of Germany's greatest modern poets, Rainer Maria Rilke, who became young Balthus' mentor. Thus from childhood Balthasar Klossowski, to give his actual name, was steeped in an artistic milieu, and he grew up with a considerable sense of himself as a prodigy. But young Balthus never enrolled at an art school: he learned from impassioned study and much copying of museum...