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...History and Literature concentrator, finished all five of her courses without sitting for a single final exam, ending up with perhaps the longest intersession of any student. The combination of her arts, humanities, and language courses—and the fact that she spent the following spring studying in Berlin??meant she did not have any coursework from early January until March. “[I] finally had a moment to sit down with my friends and have some meaningful conversations that weren’t predetermined by a syllabus,” Stebbins wrote...
Most of the best stereotypically “American” rock songs were written at least partly as bitter parodies; witness Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” penned as an Okie anthem in response to Irving Berlin??s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare...
...experience so far, Schmidgen says, “The first striking difference is that it’s quite intense here.”“Here, it’s...a lot more personal. The student-professor relationship is more individualized,” he says. In Berlin??s educational institutions, according to Schmidgen, even seminars have at least 30 to 40 students. Harvard’s seminars have “a more profound focus on the individual interests of students,” he says. And, in Berlin, professors occasionally try hard to deter...
...mantle of provocation, with “evidence” based on his daughters’ experiences with toy trucks and with phrases like “I’m not an expert in this area but a lot of people in the room are.” Berlin??s words have additional resonance as professors hold up the magnifying glass to Summers’ “government” by carefully honing in on the intellectual issues his leadership poses to running a top-notch university...
...perfectly mustachioed Führer awaits in Berlin??where, though he is significantly less plausible than Bruno Ganz in the Academy Award-nominated Downfall (or even the toga-clad Heinz Schubert in the 1978 film Our Hitler), he delivers a spluttering invective against the “low races,” and proceeds to bestow upon Bose a toy model of the boat that will carry the latter around Africa “like Vasco da Gama”—and furnish ample opportunity, in turn, to bond with the spice-starved German crew over...