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Shafrin is quick to say that he hasn’t navigated the Harvard Drama circuit alone: his blockmates and close friends are also theater mainstays. And though he eschews discussing his own strengths onstage—opting to talk about himself as the product of an encouraging environment instead—his roommate and co-president of SGCT, Alison H. Rich ’09, points to a wealth of innate talent...
...where else he might want to build faculty.English professor Louis Menand said that the administration may discuss the possibility of merging some humanities departments to be able to let go of professors more directly.“The only way you can fire people who are tenured is to close the department,” Menand said.In the meantime, Smith is soon set to appoint six working groups composed of administrators and undergraduates charged with reexamining finances within FAS.Although the working groups will be making recommendations to the FAS administration, they will not have any decision-making power, Smith said...
...with equity, but we don’t want to trade excellence for equity. Recent evidence suggests that we’ve made some progress on this long-term journey.” With the reauthorization of the No Child Left Act of 2001—which aimed to close the racial achievement gap—expected later this year, the Obama administration may see an opportunity to alter the way national education policy addresses the achievement gap issue. Ferguson said there is widespread support for transitioning to a model of accountability that measures relative gains in achievement compared...
News of the deal follows close on the heels of another major breakthrough in China-Taiwan relations. After over 10 years of trying, Taiwan received invitation on Wednesday to attend the United Nations World Health Assembly (WHA) as an observer in the 62nd meeting of the World Health Organization's governance body in May. It will be the first time that Taiwan, an island of 23 million people, has been allowed to participate in a United Nations body since it lost its U.N. seat to China in 1971. Taiwan has been pushing for an invitation every year since 1997, only...
...husband and daughters stayed as close as they could throughout the process. "I was happy," says Jose Luis, "that even though the hospital has a rule of not allowing minors in, they let my middle daughter see her and say goodbye." The 17-year-old says, "I was sad to see so many tubes, but the social worker was very nice to us and allowed me to kiss her and stay with...