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...center, a melancholy flatlands existentialist who has masked his often dark materials under a slow-spoken amiability. His Lake Wobegon stories are nearly always about the failure of ideas and ambitions that the plain and simple folks of his fictional home town are too shy, too modest, to openly admit, let alone effectively act upon...
Over the past several years, I’ve lost my cell phone more times than I care to admit. My friends consider me—endearingly, I hope—a clumsy, irresponsible fool. They shake their heads when I admit that voicemails have gone unheard; my mother sighs in shame at the wasted money and the careless child she raised. To make matters worse, I am also notoriously bad with e-mails. Days can go by as I “forget” to check my mail; if my laptop’s charger isn?...
...existentialism in film and literature. But Kenen says that although the creation of these courses was stimulated by the general education discussion, they may not necessarily provide the pattern for what general education courses will look like. REVIEW IN PREVIEWAnd already, several of the participants in that discussion admit to feeling little ownership over their proposals.“Frankly, I wouldn’t shed any tears if it didn’t pass,” Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker told The Crimson this spring. “It appears to me that we really...
...many other occasions, he put undergraduates first.To this day I’m saddened by Larry’s resignation. I believe in his vision for Harvard and am impressed with his understanding of the University and his analysis of matters of University policy. And I must admit that I’ve looked up to him as an economist and a leader. On the other hand, I am unquestionably prejudiced in his favor, and the Larry I saw in his office was, by all accounts, not the same President Summers that deans and faculty saw. I will never completely...
...defining “Harvard education.” The last century has seen a multiplicity of experiments: from a free elective system, from one of concentration and constraint, to the structures of General Education and Core, to our most recent recommendations to give the extraordinary students we admit to this place considerably greater agency in shaping their own education. Each generation has both the freedom and responsibility to define a Harvard education for its time...