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...provoke heated debate faster than moves to tinker with the country's vaunted public-education system, which embodies republican values that date back to the French Revolution. It's especially true when the changes involve an idea as capitalistic and nonegalitarian as paying certain students - the ones most apt to fail and drop out - to attend classes and get good grades...
Voters preparing to oust the weary old devil they know for a plausible young newcomer are apt to wonder if they're making the right decision. When the newcomer is David Cameron, the smoothly enigmatic leader of the Conservatives, a party once so damaged by a perceived lack of concern for Britain's most vulnerable people that its own chairwoman dubbed it the "Nasty Party," you can understand why voters want proof that the party has changed...
...Student Life and Activities and Residential Life folded into the Office of Student Life. And earlier this month, the Faculty of Arts and Science communications were merged into the University’s Public Affairs and Communication Office. Hammonds said the cooperation between the OIP and OCS was especially apt. “This is about the two organizations that work on student internships, fellowships, study abroad, career issues they just had a joint career fair,” she said. “These are things that fit well together.” OIP Director Catherine H. Winnie emphasized...
...television show “American Idol” is an apt comparison for the situation facing the quarterback position on the Harvard football team. Not only does it allude to this season’s competition for the starting spot, but it also captures the spirit of the position. More so than pop singers, Crimson quarterbacks evoke an American ethos. The job requires a rare blend of intelligence, skill, and moxie to be a leader among many future leaders. To demand such proficiency in one individual is almost unfair, but each fall the Crimson does just that in naming...
...many, the words wearable art have unfortunate connotations, smacking of models in body paint, posing self-consciously at pretentious art-gallery happenings and product launches. But that feeble sort of wearable art has nothing to do with the Montana World of WearableArt, which goes by the entirely apt acronym WOW. Its award show, held annually over several days in Wellington, New Zealand, is a fabulous event that's equal parts couture, choreography and craziness...