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There are plenty ofcomedies about failure (see Free Ride, below). The Loop is about the problems of success: Sam (Bret Harrison, near right) is an airline exec in his 20s whose roommates' idea of a big deadline is still last call at the bar. The jokes can be broad (e.g., the airline starts an offshoot called Jack; if you can't guess where the dirty puns go from there, you don't watch much Fox). But Harrison shows Topher Gracean charm as a guy stuck between adolescence and adulthood, and Philip Baker Hall (Magnolia) steals every scene...
...faculty—is to set a dangerous precedent. Inevitably, there will always be courses that are less interesting to teach than others; for obvious reasons, many faculty members prefer to teach courses in their niches. But these preferences do not excuse curricular holes in educating students broadly and with necessary foundational knowledge. History 10a aims to be “a survey of Mediterranean and West European societies from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Scientific Revolution.” Most students entering the College have had little formal exposure to such comprehensive material—and many want such...
...pedagogy of her department against charges that basic areas of American history, such as the Revolutionary War, are neglected so that faculty members can teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what’s offered at Harvard in an area of American history perhaps even more central, the Civil War. I was stunned to learn that the only...
...problems of today, about how do we combine development with effective environmental policies.” Hausmann said the fund will be used to support research, teaching, and fellowships. He said the Italian Ministry was aware of the importance of research and had given a “pretty broad mandate in this area.” “This is path-breaking in the sense that it puts the funding where the forefront of scholarship and work in the field is, rather than into conventional silos,” said William Clark, the Brooks professor of international science...
...listed in the Constitution, and cited by the court, are the powers “to raise and support armies” and “to provide and maintain a navy.” “Congress’ power in this area ‘is broad and sweeping,’ and there is no dispute in this case that it includes the authority to require campus access for military recruiters,” Roberts wrote.He also said that even though the power to raise an army is subject to limitations, Congress has broad powers...