Word: creations
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...that changed the nation, building coalitions on issues from discrimination to campaign finance to health to education. I have covered a few of his failures, notably his attempts to enact national health insurance. But there were more successes, like the 1965 immigration bill that ended national origins quotas, the creation of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (now SCHIP) in 1997, and battles to raise the minimum wage. (“If you’re not for raising the minimum wage,” he told a nervous colleague, John Kerry...
...dean of the College this past year after Benedict H. Gross ’71 stepped down.During a time of University-wide administrative transition, Pilbeam stepped in to keep the College on track—presiding over the early stages of the implementation of the General Education curriculum, the creation of a sweeping financial aid increase, and plans for a $1 billion House renewal project.But in answering a call of duty to the University, the 68-year-old from the English coast became the conveyer of a number of unpopular decisions, including the end of the Undergraduate Council?...
...considering dance until this year, Ho will now tour the nation with a professional company created by one of its foremost modern choreographers. Her shift is emblematic of a campus whose already-vibrant arts community is gaining prominence and support, and is finding new ways to integrate reflection and creation...
...Less than a month into her tenure as University President, Drew G. Faust crystallized these changes by announcing the creation of a new task force on the arts, on which Ho has served. Though Faust’s commitment to the arts has largely been expressed through rhetoric and small but symbolic actions, she has generated palpable enthusiasm as the arts community begins to rethink and reshape its role at Harvard...
...Though Harvard has historically privileged critical reflection on the arts over practical creation of the arts, it has nonetheless managed to develop a strong extracurricular-based community that has contributed to the growth of artists such as John A. Lithgow...