Word: core
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...devil’s advocate position, but I’m a greater fan of honesty, and in that vein I have to say it—“Brokeback Mountain” is an absolutely phenomenal film, a sublime work of beauty with an ache at its core so enveloping you hardly notice it until you try to stand up at its somber end. I would have imagined difficulty in praising the film this much, considering the gooey and ridiculous media discourse. But upon finally seeing it, all the talk seems trivial. It’s an unexpectedly...
...couldn’t use a few public speaking classes?”Huerta says she believes that although a public speaking course should be offered, it should not be required. “Harvard already asks so much of us with Cores that it would be hard to lose another free space,” says Ariel A. Huerta ’08. Hughes, however, suggests that although such a course should “certainly not be required,” public speaking “would be a great Literature and Arts Core, so that people...
...Student Tasha Amezcua alleged shortly after the incident that “this university has a racist history and we need that to be gone.” She added: “We have issues with the Columbia curriculum and our core classes in terms of them just being about dead white men; that’s not what the world is any more, that’s not what New York is…it’s very alienating in the classroom...
...TIME: Do you think the center is pretty clean? LEE: The core leaders I know - Hu Jintao, [Standing Committee Chairman] Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiabao, [Vice President] Zeng Qinghong - I say definitely...
...Singapore's success, there remains a feeling that it has come at a price. Lee's methods - which despite a deliberate attempt to soften the image of the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) remain at the core of his successors' approach to governing - have found plenty of critics at home and abroad. The reaction of ordinary Singaporeans when questioned about politics or Lee and his family is telling. Without them quite knowing it, there is often an instinctive lowering of the voice and a glance over the shoulder. "People are still too frightened to talk about the taboo subjects...