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Against the backdrop of World War II, then-University President James B. Conant ’14 appointed a group of professors to examine the role of “education in a free society,” with a specific focus on the way Harvard educates its undergraduates. That group’s work gave rise to the creation of the General Education (Gen Ed) system, the academic predecessor to the Core that established a set of distribution requirements for all students...
Onstage at the Wang, O’Leary begins her performance by bending into an arabesque, with the ornate carvings of the theater as backdrop. She pauses for a moment to breathe and look out at the thousands of seats. It’s a truly beautiful space which plays host to over 40 shows every year...
...first met Harvard as the hazy backdrop to my parents’ weird college stories. I’ve been told that my father and his roommates piled guinea pig cages one on top of another to build what they called the “Pig Palace.” They owned a cat called Meez, an iguana that lived in the closet, as well as a family of white mice. My mother was there too, drawn in to the zoo by a rather inexplicable attraction to a version of my father in dark glasses and hair so huge...
...situations lend themselves to melodrama more readily than the impact and aftermath of the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan. Yet two of the sharpest films on view in Cannes?At Five in the Afternoon and the native Afghan movie Osama?show the social carnage in intimate terms, as the backdrop to stories of women fighting for a measure of equality...
...last Tuesday taking a water-emergency training course at the White House pool, in case he was forced to eject into the Pacific.) Then there was the carrier's position, which had to be tilted to obscure any view of the nearby coastline and ensure a picture-perfect azure backdrop. All in a day's work for the President? Not exactly. Bush was so energized by the experience that he didn't get to his cabin until 11 p.m. P.T.--four hours past his usual bedtime. --By James Carney