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...meaning. Parents would not only carry UPS boxes but would also help students lug around their dorm rooms, which would be large glass boxes themselves.These are only some of the ultramodern ideas to emerge out of Professor Jonathan Levi’s studio class at the GSD, a core course in the school’s architectural design program. The semester-long project challenged 66 students to address the University’s impending extension into Allston. Specifically, the students grappled with one proposed plan for the expansion that entails building four Houses across the River to replace the three...
...indeed been a watchword in campus curricular conversations of late. While the recently-concluded curricular review dithered about outlining a vision for general education in the 21st century, most students’ complaints continued to center less on pedagogical philosophy than on the paucity of options for fulfilling Core requirements. Incoming students no longer have to choose—as we seniors, the last of an older generation, had to—their concentration in their freshman year, ostensibly to permit, through more freedom to sample various disciplines, thus a more meaningful choice of study. Departments did not delay...
...Already, even under the relatively narrow Core, Harvard graduates share little as far as common academic experiences or familiarity with the same body of knowledge and literature that once distinguished those with a university education. The Greek and Roman classics, and the modern canon of “great books” of literature and philosophy, once occupied much of the intellectual experiences of Harvard students—presumably because the study of such works imparted knowledge of the virtues, and made men’s minds “liberal” in the original sense, not slavish...
...core of the mounting concerns about deflation is this: the global financial system is going through a vicious process of deleveraging. Financial institutions are reducing debt and raising capital, either directly from governments or from private-sector sources. By desperately trying to rebuild their battered balance sheets and regain some semblance of investor confidence, banks and investment banks are not doing much lending. Indeed, the definition of deleveraging is reducing debt relative to assets. Assets, for banks, are loans. And these days pretty much everyone is deleveraging...
...eight years now, he’s been writing speeches at the core of the modern conservative movement—first as a senior advisor to President Bush and most recently for Senator McCain. Two months ago, he made headlines as the author of Governor Palin’s well-received nomination speech at the Republican National Convention. In some sense, Scully was a natural choice to write the speech: A former literary editor at National Review, he has long been an eloquent advocate of pro-life, faith-based conservatism...