Word: culturese
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To the editors: Last night I watched Iran’s “moderate” former president, Mohammad Khatami, speak to the Tolerant and the Enlightened at Harvard. At the end of the speech, during the question and answer session, a young man asked about the Islamic law...
Foreign Cultures is a requirement? Henry Cabot Lodge, noted isolationist and member of the Class of 1871, would not be thrilled. “Harvard students are learning about foreigners?” he would yell, waving his cane, pocketwatch flailing about. “At America’s...
Thanks to the College’s Curricular Review, the Core Curriculum, that onerous set of requirements that has burdenered undergrads for a generation, will soon, finally, be extinct. But that’s of little help to you, fellow undergraduate, for you will be the victim of The Core...
In the penultimate phrase of his lecture, Benedict said: "It is to this great logos, to this breadth of reason, that we invite our partners in the dialogue of cultures." Ah yes, the "d" word. "Dialogue" has become a familiar papal term ever since John Paul launched the first of...
The school extended the invitation on behalf of Harvard under the belief that Khatami could further the discussion on improving relations between cultures, Jackson said.