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...order to support two other lecture series: “Green Conversations” and “Biodiversity, Ecology and Global Change.” Daniel P. Schrag, the Center for the Environment’s director, said that Bank of America’s funding has been central to the expansion of the center’s activities. “Only about a quarter of our budget comes directly from the provost,” he said. “The lectures that Bank of America has sponsored have allowed Harvard to host speakers from all over...
...mater on Nov. 17 to premiere his newest film, “Defiance,” for Harvard students at the Brattle Square Theater. Zwick has always felt the allure of the film industry. “I grew up as part of a generation to whom movies were central to your experience of life,” he said. His time at Harvard encouraged this interest in film and helped shape the kind of director he would become. Zwick describes the many hours spent watching classic movies at the Harvard Square and Brattle Square theaters. “That...
...matches exactly the way we learn language as infants.”This class has helped Lewis crystallize her feelings that poetry is essential in human life. “I started in poetry,” Lewis says. “That’s the central form.” In the Phelps Lecture that she delivered on Tuesday titled “The Health of Poetry,” Lewis delved into the importance of the form, exploring ideas of creativity and depression.“I don’t buy this figure of the depressed...
...week after violent clashes left at least 300 people dead and thousands displaced in the central Nigerian city of Jos, the fires have yet to be put out, both literally and figuratively. What remained of a grain and second-hand clothes market, for example, was still smoldering. Yusuf Muhammed Fikin, 58, a market stall owner, picked through the hot rubble. "I got this business from my grandfather, some 30 years ago. I owned 41 sheds, and we didn't get anything out, not even one kobo [a cent]. We lost about 6 million naira [$50,000]. All was burned." There...
...fact, English professor Gordon Teskey—an expert on Shakespeare who also used to teach English 10a—said he thinks there would be more of an emphasis on great authors, whereas the current set-up makes time period and geography the central organizing principles...