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If you doubt that President Obama has changed American politics, consider that we are about to have the first Supreme Court confirmation hearing in almost a quarter-century that does not revolve, in one way or another, around Roe v. Wade. The appeals-court judge Sonia Sotomayor has ruled on...
Burt's parents, for instance: Jerry (Jeff Daniels) and Gloria (Catherine O'Hara). Burt and Verona have moved to be near them in the child's first years, but now they're moving abroad and renting their house to strangers, leaving the kids to find some other place to live...
So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't. And I consider it part of my responsibility as...
...priorities.A BLUEPRINT WITHOUT BACKINGBefore the decision to adopt a University-wide academic schedule, a number of Harvard’s graduate schools—including the Kennedy School, Medical School, and School of Public Heath—already included a J-Term in their calendars. After six months of consideration, Verba’s committee recommended that the entire University convert to a calendar of two four-month semesters separated by a one-month break.The report suggested that each of Harvard’s schools determine “how, or whether, they wish to use the January time period...
...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’s long-term needs required an energetic push into neighboring Allston, considerable friction soon arose around the plan’s particulars—and also around Summers’ aggressive, independent...