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...unfair to make a blanket accusation of apathy against the faculty as it would be to accuse the student body of laziness and conformism because large numbers take guts or popular courses. Instead, I suggest concerned students and faculty unite to agree upon and promote a common vision of general education for Harvard’s future. Now let’s see whether anybody steps forward to help break down this academic Berlin Wall...
...envision the situation where those schools and the Ivies might find some common ground that’s comfortable,” Bilsky told the Times. “That’s a long-term solution that offers some appeal...
...that sense he has something in common with the movie people who want to make westerns. In the 1950s the genre was ubiquitous, both on the big screen (where such stars as Brando, Gable, Monroe and Stanwyck did sagebrush epics) and on TV (where, in the 1958-59 season, six of the seven top-rated series were oaters). A decade later, the form was revitalized in the spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood and directed by Sergio Leone. But by the late 1970s the genre had virtually bit the dust. Natural western stars might very occasionally be able...
Entwistle threw that logic out with last night's room service. He initially recruited the majority of his investment-banking team from other Goldman offices. They had in common a commitment to make Goldman a player in India's boom. All but two employees are of Indian descent, but they're as likely to have come from New York City, London or Tokyo as Bangalore. Their boss can rely on "a team that knows Goldman's particular systems and culture inside and out," Moniz says. "They only have to get up to speed on the local market...
...picnic. Most of the courtyard houses that held one family before Beijing fell to the Communists in 1949 are now packed with five or six. Toilets and showers are communal and sometimes hundreds of meters away. Heating comes from smoky coal fires, and deaths from asphyxiation are common. Xu Xiaotang, who has lived in the same central-Beijing alley for nearly a half- century, would move out tomorrow if he could afford to. "This is not a place for humans to live," Xu says...