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While the Medieval era is called the Dark Ages by some scholars, one Harvard professor is making the Middle Ages modern. Michael McCormick, professor of History 1101: “Medieval Europe,” is known for his talent of engaging students with largely unpublished information about Medieval Europe. But McCormick has found yet another way to make his class stand out: by offering Skype office hours every Monday from 10-11 p.m. Skype, a software program that enables users to make phone calls over the Internet and communicate via instant messaging, is a popular program that many college...
...only statements in the piece that’s definitely true.The article, which graced the front page of the Times’ sports section on Sunday and has since sparked a minor wave of incredulous columnists and bloggers weighing in, is titled “In a New Era at Harvard, New Questions of Standards.” The headline refers to the program’s recruiting standards—“Harvard’s new approach could tarnish the university’s sterling reputation,” Thamel worries—but in the nascent...
...with the creation of visually profound works of art, but with addressing salient issues that are important for them and for their communities,” she says. Blier emphasizes a desire in the artists to explore and think through the major changes facing the new generation in this era of post-independence and globalization.Although the conference’s focus is contemporary African art, van Wyk believes the issue of new geographies is applicable to everyone. “We are all caught up in this,” he says...
...being a “guitar hero” has been around for ages—you know, in the sense of mastering the actual instrument.The guitar has been around for thousands of years in one form or another. For many of these years—specifically that era in which The Beatles were bigger than God—guitar-playing was in, and it was producing memorable songs. Nowadays we have canned bands like Nickelback and a slew of others who can’t even write their own music. Meanwhile, actual guitar gods are on the decline...
...tens of thousands of homeless in Baghdad find shelter wherever they can in the most dangerous city in the world. Just outside the Karada district, there is an abandoned Iraqi military base from the Saddam Hussein era that looters had reduced to little more than piles of rubble strewn around the cement slabs in the ground. Displaced from other parts of Iraq, these people have taken up shelter in makeshift houses on the otherwise deserted grounds. Among them is Hadi Shaker Hamadi and his clan, cobbling together a shelter of cinderblocks, scrap wood and cardboard. They...