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...need to get nostalgic, though—Harvard’s Game-centric school-spirit gatherings have never been perfect, rain or shine. The rally in 1962, held on Widener steps, suffered from the same stifling police environment that inhibits its latter-day cousins; it was closed out with two arrests, one of which was for “standing on a ladder”. The 1980 rally seems like it might have been an oasis of fun bisecting two almost-twenty-year dry spells. At it, the then-associate dean of freshmen worried that “the damn...
...wave of movies challenging the conventional wisdom that the taste of young men is what drives the box office. This year female fans helped make monster hits of High School Musical 3 ($84 million), Mamma Mia! ($144 million) and Sex and the City ($152 million). "[Female-centric films] used to be counterprogramming to something extremely male in the marketplace," says Chuck Viane, Disney's president of distribution. "Now they've become the gorilla in the marketplace." (Read Richard Corliss's review of Twilight...
...magazine. It was high quality and good content, and had features that I found of interest regarding Harvard alums.” Though, he admits, “It was not of such interest that I actually ever subscribed.”Another feature holding back the Harvard alumni-centric niche magazine is the other Harvard alumni-centric niche magazine—The Harvard Magazine. Bob Giles, curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism notes that, “One of the things that 02138 goes up against is that Harvard Magazine is such an extraordinary alumni publication...
...owes its very terminology and subject of analysis to classical political philosophy.The presence of Latin and Greek in college core curricula, however, does privilege eminently Western ideas and works. While such a thought might send shivers down the spine of the most committed post-colonial literary theorist, this Western-centric ideal should not be a cause of concern.To put putatively “Western” learning, like classical languages, on par with other cultural traditions presents an acute case of internal inconsistency. The idea of a university, of liberal learning— which Harvard claims to exemplify?...
...should shake us to the core. While media coverage of Ahmadenejad’s visit to the United Nations General Assembly last week was primarily focused on the dangers posed to America and to the world by a nuclear Iran, it behooves us to remove ourselves from this America-centric perspective and consider the actual suffering of those already under his fanatic and menacing rule...