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...After he moved to the U.S. in 1933, he enthusiastically embraced all things American. He liked to boast that despite his Russian upbringing and European background (he had danced and choreographed in Germany, France, England and Denmark), ?I?m more American than anybody.? He set ballets to the music of Charles Ives, George Gershwin and John Philip Sousa. He choreographed dances for Hollywood movies (notably the Slaughter on Tenth Avenue sequence in On Your Toes, 1936) and Broadway musicals (including The Boys from Syracuse, 1938). He even famously devised a polka for the elephants in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum...
...Given his political background, it wasn’t unexpected,” said Daniel J. Epstein, a graduate student in political science. Garzon served from 1993 to 1994 as a member of the Socialist Party in the lower house of the Spanish Cortes—the national legislature in Spain...
Almost everyone agrees that a college education should be available to anyone, regardless of socioeconomic background. But when the federal government sits down to reform the system of grants it gives to colleges for financial aid, schools like Harvard inevitably get hurt. The longest-established college in the country, Harvard stands to lose around $6 million after a federal redistribution of grants recently proposed by the Bush administration. This is because some older New England schools, including Harvard, have profited from a skewed, outdated formula that determines how much federal aid each school gets...
...weekly presentations, students describe their project’s obstacles and progress while drawing from the week’s reading for analytical background...
...like to tell people my only background in theater is in the classroom,” he said. “In some ways, the Socratic classroom is a theater in that there’s a lot of dialogue and a lot of role playing, both by students and by professors...