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...academia, where specialization is a virtue that earns tenure, Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies James Russell is a curious person to lead the charge for general education.Nonetheless, in a two-semester survey of “Literature Humanities,” Russell has carved out a place in the battery of freshmen seminars (usually a portal to Harvard at its most myopic) to provide a semblance of well-rounded, broad education to eager newcomers.It has long been supposed that no one—neither professors nor students—wants to be troubled by the dead white men who comprise...
...catalyst to bring the study of humans as people and humans as organisms closer together than ever before. And one introductory lecture course at Harvard is using the study of AIDS to bridge that gap, too.The Life Sciences 1 curriculum has taken on the ambitious task of providing curious and over-confident freshmen with a comprehensive survey of elementary biology and chemistry in a mere eight months. Comparable to space food, the material is condensed and not inherently enjoyable, but then again, we’re not eating it for the taste; we consume it for the intellectual calories. Thankfully...
...lose and still have fun. Fun is the whole point of eating well. But these are tough times. Fine dining is experiencing a wave of popular interest just as prices are soaring out of reach for many. "Destination restaurants" are becoming a one-time splurge for the curious. That, in turn, could lead to slipping standards if most diners are too intimidated to complain - and the rest are too rich to care. Dedicated foodies who have worked to pay their way through the University of the Good Life are being priced out of the market. There's an argument...
...catchphrase attribution is one of several fumbles made by directors Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech in their efforts to create an animated film that caters to all demographics. They also sacrifice the charm of traditional children’s movies for aggressive characters, trite cartoon gags, and curious casting decisions; Xzibit, for example, sheds a little more of his dignity by providing the voice of an irritable grizzly bear/police chief. But “Hoodwinked” isn’t a laugh-free affair: when the characters aren’t talking, the writers manage...
...from an independent company. In fact, Dmitry Medvedev, a close friend of President Putin and the first deputy prime minister of Russia, chairs the “corporation.” In the last months, this behemoth bought, in a throwback to good ol’ Soviet times, curious assets to “complete its portfolio”: Izvestia, a money-losing newspaper, and NTV, a leading TV network formerly owned by one of Putin’s rapidly vanishing rivals. This cold New Year, the company was used for a 21st-century taste of realpolitik...