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...show promotes the idea of working together in the context of a very un-ideal environment. Although Sesame Street has many delightful characters, over the years its denizens have faced tough challenges??poverty, family separation, intercultural anxiety, and even urban blight. The show’s message that folks can voluntarily work together despite their differences, and sometimes through their differences, to promote the general welfare is not overly idealistic—it is a profound piece of the American historical narrative...
...summer retreat in 2003 and officially announced that fall—boldly called for both the construction of undergraduate housing and the relocation of two graduate schools to Allston, all anchored around a hub for interdisciplinary science research. To “consider more fully the opportunities and challenges?? inherent in these programmatic goals, Summers convened four Allston task forces in 2003 to examine elements of the plan more closely. Goodman says that these committees eventually did touch on budgetary considerations in its evaluation of different ideas. But while most of the deans and faculty agreed that Harvard?...
...inherent to American public education since the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002, the public eye has been largely turned on the difficulties and injustices plaguing the country’s underfunded urban school districts. Rural public education, however, poses its own unique set of challenges??and, at the risk of sounding trite, opportunities. In just over three months, I’ll begin teaching in the Mississippi Delta, and even attempting to imagine what my “experience” will be seems reductive and simplistic. While we recognize the complexities...
...HUPD faces a number of unique policing challenges??the most significant being that there are frequent visitors to the Harvard campus who may be less committed to its security and well-being. Consider that, last year, 86 percent of arrests and complaints were lodged against non-Harvard affiliates. Our campus resides in the center of an urban environment, and a malicious individual could easily access the campus, commit a crime, and leave. Furthermore, the HUPD cannot examine the legitimacy of each call before responding, as this could dangerously delay an HUPD presence at the most crucial moment...
Rising stars of the classical music world such as Albright face a peculiar set of challenges??besides a need for ruthless time management. Along with the delicate balancing act between music and academics, between NEC and Harvard, there lies as larger question. And perhaps this question is the eternal dilemma of the young: what will I do with my life...