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...France, President Nicolas Sarkozy introduced a pedagogical emphasis on the Holocaust to his country’s classrooms. But while this attempt to address and correct one of history’s great crimes demonstrated laudable self-awareness, it also had the character of a stunt: Where was the mention of France’s more recent oversteps in colonial Algeria? Perhaps education design should be left to the educators, and not the politicians. It is, of course, difficult to ask or impel any major power to come to grips with its past errors, but the nearer states draw...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Into an Uncertain Future | 6/2/2008 | See Source »

...coin-operated machines located in Mather, Currier and Leverett Houses—which cost $4 an hour to use ($3 with tokens)—allowed students to write and correct text documents on screens, as well as perform basic list and mathematical functions...

Author: By Maxwell L. Child, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Entering the Digital Age | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...designed cover, with a certain trendy feel to it. As you got to know him, it was more about depicting Harry as a real person. By the fifth cover, I was more interested in Harry on an emotional, personal level rather than creating a graphically designed, compositionally correct cover. I tried to bring that emotional and personal feeling to this anniversary cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Harry Potter's Portrait Artist | 5/29/2008 | See Source »

...true to the original intentions of Michelangelo’s ceilinged masterpieces. The 1994 revision of “Fair Harvard,” however, completely departed from Gilman’s original meaning. It seemed that the fair alums of Harvard were so anxious to adopt a politically correct alternative to the first verse that they overlooked the artistic integrity of the piece as a whole...

Author: By Brian S Gillis | Title: Fair Harvard | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

...rquez addressed a regional “madness” afflicting the continent, perhaps at the core of what he famously described as “one hundred years of solitude” in his most celebrated novel. Although García Márquez may be correct about Latin America as a whole, the Bolivian navy does not fit his regional argument. This is not just because other landlocked countries, like Rwanda and Serbia, also have navies. Rather, it is because irrational behavior has always been at the core of international relations...

Author: By Pierpaolo Barbieri | Title: The Uncertainty Principle | 5/19/2008 | See Source »

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