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...debate among faculty and students at both schools in the early 1900s gained new relevance last December, in the context of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ decision to create a new School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. SEAS, while still a part of the Faculty, now is independent enough to form crucial relationships with other Harvard faculties, according to former FAS Dean William C. Kirby. The School celebrated its official launch on Sept. 20, hosting festivities in front of Pierce Hall with University President Drew G. Faust, members of the Board of Overseers, engineering students and alumni...
...will do anything for a laugh as long as I think it’s within the proper context of the movie,” he said...
...allergy to cancer to brain disease.“Molecules and Medicine” allots exactly one page to each molecule in medicine that it covers, breaking the pattern for occasional explanations of the biological targets on which a given class of drugs work, and providing the all-important context that turns its potentially dry pages into a wellspring of useful information.And context is what gives “Molecules and Medicine” value, allowing it to be more accessible than a medical textbook and more credible than an online source. Context is also where Corey, Czak?...
...this was kind of like a teaching moment, as they say. And so I began thinking about the fascination of all of the different meaning attached to the slogan,” she said. Ulrich attributes the popularity of her phrase to its ambiguity when unmoored from its original context. Some take it to mean “good girls get no credit.” Others see it as saying “bad girls have more fun.” But the appeal of misbehavior can also have to do with reading against the grain.A PRESENT CONSTRUCTIONWhile Ulrich?...
...suicide bomber] Mohammed Atta was talking about some of the financing of terrorism... coming from the illicit art trafficking market," he said. But Rutelli said there is also a "scientific" motivation for his unprecedented push to resolve these standoffs directly with the musuems. "The issue is also one of context. If you have a stolen masterpiece, you don't know its history. You don't know where it comes from, if it's from Sicily or Apulia or Magna Grecia," he said. "They are doomed to be anonymous." With that in mind, Rutelli also plays good cop in the negotiations...