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...makes us look very parochial” to ignore foreign languages in the proposed curriculum, Suleiman said. “Harvard thinks of itself as an international institution and yet seems to think that everyone speaks English...
Bridie Clark: I was an English major...I also wrote for FM. With that skill set, a career in publishing made sense...
...late for medical school, but as a military officer with a Harvard degree I can do almost anything I want.” Some Harvard alumni find their calling in the military even without the help of ROTC. Jonas P. Akins ‘01 taught at an English boarding school and worked in a consulting firm before enrolling in an intensive officer-training program. “Harvard prepared me extremely well for the military,” Akins says, who is now a junior-level Naval lieutenant. “What I do now depends on being able...
...everyone felt it. When English Professor and resident poet Nikki Giovanni delivered her final comments, it was not clear how her assertions of strength and unity were being received. There was a dangerous undercurrent throughout, a feeling that the professor was striking not quite the right note when she said, "We are Virginia Tech." And when she said that there was tragedy everywhere, including when an elephant was killed for its ivory or a child was killed by a rolling boulder it was hard to tell if she'd quite captured what the crowd was searching...
...Chos alighted first in Detroit but eventually settled in Centreville, Va., where they live in a two-story, cream-colored townhouse with two vegetable patches in the back, one with lettuces just beginning to sprout. They are said to be a hard-working couple who speak only a little English and run a dry-cleaning business. Their daughter graduated from Princeton in 2004 and, according to the Washington Post, works as a contractor for the State Department. The Chos are said to be cooperating with police; they allowed a 90-minute search of their home on Monday evening...