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...saying “there will be no artificial quotas and no barriers” at Harvard. “Under President Faust, excellence in teaching and research will the be watchword,” she wrote in an e-mail. Balch said that he believed Faust was chosen in part as a product of the post-Lawrence H. Summers environment. The former Harvard president, who was forced to resign from his post last February, sparked an outcry in 2005 when he proposed that “issues of intrinsic aptitude” might be one factor explaining the underrepresentation...
...historical illiteracy will be allowed, even if clearly frowned upon,” Gordon said in prepared comments for this past Tuesday’s Faculty meeting.Meanwhile, proponents of the new plan insist it would actually give departments more sway in how general education courses are chosen, and say that more departmental courses would count for general education credit.Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, who co-chaired the task force that drafted the proposal, also said that the strength of the new curriculum would lie in its interdisciplinary focus.“The report organizes the curriculum around subjects rather than...
...Meanwhile, in his first four months in office, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has seemed out of touch with the national mood. While Japanese say they're most worried about stagnant wages, a fragile pension system and growing social disparities, Abe has chosen to prioritize plans to revise Japan's pacifist constitution. While parents fret about declining academic standards, Abe's response has been to pass a reform bill that will attempt to make children more patriotic, and may bring back physical punishment to schools. "I'm not sure that constitutional revision should be the No. 1 issue," says Sadakazu Tanigaki...
...accents, creative color blocking, and enough cable knit to outfit the entire Harvard freshman class.1: 45 p.m.The Lemonheads’ “Mrs. Robinson” plays overhead, breaking the unspoken Fashion Week rule that all runway music must be foreign and violently bass-heavy. Unfortunately, Fabio has chosen a new seating buddy. We stand in the back, watching the Perry Ellis models swagger down the runway.Jay McCarroll, winner of the first season of “Project Runway,” also watches nearby from behind his bug-eyed sunglasses. He’s styled in a black...
...response, the Cariocas, as the residents of Rio are called, have chosen to go the other way, local instead of international, familial and not corporate. In recent years, thousands of people have set up their own little informal samba schools, known as blocos. Blocos are essentially groups of friends with a theme, a song and a desire to have a good time. Eschewing the formal paraphanelia or costumes of the official samba schools, they meet in public places and then dance around the block behind some music, often a witty samba poking fun at politicians or celebrities. The small ones...