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...comes to the Core. With nine areas, ranging from Quantitive Reasoning to three variations on English, these overwhelmingly large classes with strange syllabi also promise cryptic grading standards and generally ill-prepared graduate students posing as teaching fellows. There are some stars in the Core, from famous poetry critic Helen H. Vendler to Shakespeare expert Marjorie Garber, Kenan professor of English...
...work as a critic, I have often been attacked for maintaining too high a standard, demanding far more than a group of students could ever possibly give. If I have been reserved in my praise of undergraduate theater, it was in preparation for a show that could transcend limitations across campus, a show so powerfully cohesive that it might just elevate Harvard out of the theatrical laughing stock of Boston area colleges. I found that show in The Great God Brown...
...speed-up would swamp domestic industries with a flood of low-priced goods before his country is ready. "We're joining the FTAA only if it's convenient for us," Lafer told TIME last week. Brazil gained support in that position from Venezuelan president Chávez, a strident critic of the U.S., who flew down to Brasília last month to say that moving the date forward "would be for us a process of disintegration." Then Chávez asked for Venezuela to become an associate member of Mercosur...
Gary Orfield, a professor of education and social policy at the Graduate School of Education (GSE) and the Kennedy School of Government, is another critic...
Research by M.I.T. atmospheric scientist Richard Lindzen suggests that warming will tend to make cirrus clouds go away. Another critic, John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says that while the models reproduce the current climate in a general way, they fail to get right the amount of warming at different levels in the atmosphere. Neither Lindzen nor Christy (both IPCC authors) doubts, however, that humans are influencing the climate. But they question how much--and how high temperatures will go. Both scientists are distressed that only the most extreme scenarios, based on huge population growth...