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...with these qualities. This can only happen if teaching ability is considered as part of the tenure decisions for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers expanded the importance of teaching experience and evaluations in tenure decisions; the next president must continue this endeavor. And a system which considers both scholarship and classroom wizardry is tenable at a research university; Harvard Business School, for example, already takes both factors into account in its hires...
Produced by Valentine N. Quadrat ’09, the show integrates ballet, modern dance, vocal artists, and a live orchestra into a massive artistic endeavor. Directors Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Sarah C. Kenney ’08 of the Harvard Ballet Company have coordinated with music director Shira R. Brettman ’08 to produce one of the most ambitious dance performances at Harvard in recent memory. In most of its pieces, “American Grace” more than meets these ambitions...
...first to discover a new way to guard against TB—two French scientists developed the so-called BCG vaccine to fight the disease in the early 1920s. But the present-day BCG method is far from ideal. It requires injecting needles into infants—a risky endeavor in areas where clean needles are hard to find, and where reusing old ones can spread HIV. Moreover, the BCG vaccine must be stored at cool temperatures, complicating its distribution to remote areas...
Lamont Library bears a striking resemblance to a Las Vegas casino. While Harvard’s monument to round-the-clock academic endeavor may lack blackjack tables and Siegfried & Roy, it shares the Vegas ethos of detachment from ordinary reality...
According to D’Souza, the Iraq war should not be viewed as a moral effort to spread democracy everywhere, but as a self-interested endeavor...