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...History Department should seek pedagogical improvements to its teaching. Perhaps it might consider extending the course over a full year or instituting “flavored” sections, in which subjects in the course are more deeply pursued. Finally, if tenured faculty cannot be found to satisfy the demand and need for such a course with enthusiasm, there is no shame in turning to hiring lecturers who are genuinely interested in providing this type of broad introduction to western civilization...
...TIME: Back in 2002 in a Fortune cover story, you discussed the questions that were guiding your conception of the computing future, and you had already anticipated the needs of a multitasking, on-demand and highly mobile consumer population. As you cogitate on what's next technologically, and the role the PC will play, what do you see now as you look ahead-what will we need, what will we want and how will Microsoft products deliver...
...former Bush administration economics adviser was in high demand at yesterday’s event. “There was a big huddle of students around Mankiw asking him questions,” said Adina B. Pomerantz ’09. “There was an assortment of cheeses. The brie was really good...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to demand patron borrowing information from libraries, a provision which Harvard faculty members said violates principles of academic freedom, has been extended for four more years after Congress renewed the Patriot Act yesterday. Although the renewal was delayed in the Senate for over two months by debate on the Patriot Act’s impact on civil liberties, Harvard officials said that the debate has not substantially changed the provisions of the act. “I think it was unfortunate that the tilt of the result is to leave the Patriot...
...friendly environments are present in several classes offered at Harvard.Pre-professional and amateur students mingle in screenwriting and playwriting seminars offered by the English department, for credit, and the non-credit Winthrop House seminar.For some, Mullins’s screenwriting class is too selective to keep up with its demand. “The creative writing department here sucks,” mourns James C. Oliver ’06, who was rejected from the seminar this semester. “I was like, ‘Hi. This is what I do. This is what I want...