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...genuinely multimedia search engine" to meet the "global challenge" issued by U.S.-based Google and Yahoo!. The project's chief selling point is said to be a revolutionary capability to search as well as translate audio and video sources. But details are scarce: Thomson, the French company heading the endeavor, even shut down its website last week after details of the potential services set tech tongues wagging. A source who wouldn't go on record because negotiations on funding are continuing - unconfirmed reports put the initial bill at €1-2 billion - would only say that Quaero will go beyond...
...NIGHT, YOU WRITE ABOUT YOUR INTEREST IN JEWISH MYSTICISM AND KABBALAH, WHICH HAVE FOUND A NEW PLACE IN POP CULTURE. I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism...
...Yang says that this is a massive endeavor. “One of my favorite memories of the yearbook was sitting with the former business manager, and we had been in the office for seven hours,” she says. “We just starting shrieking and jumping up and down and going nuts, because we didn’t want to enter orders anymore...
...reforms proposed in our reports make it clear that a liberal education must be the shared endeavor of faculty and students alike. It is an education fostered not only in classrooms and laboratories but also by individual conversation and advising. Students and faculty must truly engage one another, close up, and not at a distance. The most consistent-and most accurate-criticism of a Harvard education today is that student-faculty contact is much too limited. Our current system of concentrations decants too many students, much too early, into too few concentrations that are too large. Our Core Program funnels...
This broad scrutiny of our collective teaching endeavor is now in its third year. The time has come to move forward with our formal deliberations and toward the legislation that we think appropriate in the light of the recommendations these reports incorporate. In the coming semester we will set before the Faculty the recommendations first on concentrations and then on general education. We will hear further on the recommendations on writing and speaking. We will bear in mind the implications of all of these for the recommendations on advising, which colleagues have already received. If, after we have discussed...