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Alexis F. Bernstein ’05, a former director of the Harvard Ballet Company, said she worries that making arts opportunities count for credit could change students’ reasons for participating in the arts...
...Anya E. Bernstein, director of studies for social studies, says the program might need to create a staff to advise non-concentrators, a task for which it is now unprepared...
...would have to focus on helping students to figure out what they want to do to a greater extent even before they’ve determined that they definitely want to be a social studies concentrator,” Bernstein says. “Right now, we don’t really have the infrastructure to do a lot of that. We have the assistant director who will meet with students, but he’s one person...
...only do these vital virtuosos continue to perform, but most also teach, providing a critical link to a celebrated musical past. Bass player Homer Mensch, 89, learned orchestra playing from conducting greats Arturo Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein. Sandor grew up studying piano at Budapest's Liszt Academy with Bela Bartok, one of the 20th century's greatest composers. "[Bartok] listened to you and then played whatever you were trying to play," says Sandor of his teacher. "Technique is a difficult thing to put into words...
...Economic Policy Institute's Bernstein says businesses ought to find a way to "share some winnings with those who lose" by creating funds for wage insurance or retraining. Otherwise there is a risk that the benefits of outsourcing will widen the gap between the rich and everyone else. The McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank run by McKinsey & Co., recommends that companies sending jobs abroad contribute about 5% of their savings to an insurance fund that would compensate displaced workers for part of the difference in wages paid by their old and new jobs. During the 1980s and '90s, most...