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...assumed that a Harvard undergrad enrolled in “Biology of the Fungi” just can’t wait to learn about smuts and molds. While you may feel trapped in an occasional Core lecture or intro course, in general, attending class should never be a burden. So why do we insist on running for the door? It may be a symptom of our speed-obsessed society, in which multitasking is necessary just to keep up. With easy, instantaneous modes of communication—like e-mail, Facebook and text messaging—and devices that allow...
...engaged in a deepening ideological battle over the bloated salaries of its top corporate executives. Socialists are calling for a statutory minimum wage, a move most conservatives oppose, as well as for a law to limit executive salaries. Many voters are angry that ordinary workers have to carry the burden of Germany's economic reforms while executives give themselves huge pay increases, and they have been flocking to an opposition party called the Left, an amalgam of the former East Germany's ruling communist party and West German leftists. Though long established in the East, the Left managed in January...
...Michel ’77, a professor of medicine who leads the education advisory group, stressed that planning on his committee was “very much a work in progress,” but said the group was considering a broad range of issues—from debt burden to distance learning...
...round of transatlantic mud-slinging. "We have made no secret about it that there are certain allies that are in much more dangerous parts of the country, " U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this week. And we believe very strongly there ought to be a sharing of that burden throughout the Alliance." NATO currently has about 40,000 troops in the country, but its officials say it needs another 7,500, especially in the south...
...Aswany relishes crafting a good yarn - he spends months sketching every detail of his characters' lives and personalities before weaving them into his narratives - he is also zealous about the artist's role as social critic. Rarely has that burden seemed more important in the Middle East, with Al Aswany serving as a relatively lonely advocate of liberalism caught in a struggle against an entrenched authoritarian regime on one hand and a rising, chauvinistic Islamist movement on the other. "This is a battle for democracy," he explains during one in a series of interviews with TIME. "Writing is part...