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...Paul Revere battalion—about 50 students in all, drawn from seven colleges in the Boston area. “Battalion, attention!” the sergeant major barks. “No Fear Paul Revere!” the cadets chant back. Many of them are tall, broad-shouldered men. They tower over their sergeant major, who wryly describes her height as “five foot nothing.” And they obey her commands without hesitation. The sergeant major this semester is Harvard senior Rachel R. Sarvis ’06. She is used to challenging...
...larger marketplace, the most popular films were the ones that were made for everyone, and that everyone wanted to see once: you, your kids, your mom. That?s the broad, if thin, constituency that made blockbusters out of The Love Bug, Airport, The Poseidon Adventure, The Godfather, The Sting-and Jaws, by Lucas? contemporary Steven Spielberg. The majority of these pictures made their money slowly, playing first runs, then gradually reaching the smaller towns and theaters; the theatrical life of one of these crowd-pleasers might be a full year. There were genre movies, of course, but not many science...
...we’ve reached a point where a University Professor can complain of that awful dystopia where the “names and dates [of historical events] were chiseled in stone.” This attitude is chief among the reasons why undergraduates are so devoid of a broad historical narrative in which to situate the little nuggets of ephemera they receive from the hodgepodge of Harvard history classes. It’s this condition that makes History 10a’s mission is more vital today than ever before...
...just for Chuck Norris and Frank Lloyd Wright anymore. Ninety young Boston-area girls came to Harvard Saturday afternoon for “Careers Day,” hosted by Strong Women Strong Girls (SWSG). The third to fifth graders, who participated in the event, were introduced to a broad range of potential professions through a series of educational workshops in different career fields. Members of SWSG, an all-female campus mentoring organization for at-risk girls in the Boston area, ran the workshops, which allowed the girls to explore careers in architecture, business, science, and law enforcement. Participants also...
...could take a minute, I'd like to discuss what a national-unity government would mean. What are the forces that should constitute this government? On that, there is broad agreement -not unanimous, but broad agreement - that it should be formed from the Shi'ite alliance, the Kurdish alliance, the Sunni Arab alliance and across sectarian groups, [the secular block] led by Iyad Allawi. The second issue is that there has to be a process for decision-making in which these forces could participate and that's important for a variety of reasons. There is a strong polarization along ethnic...