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...have a great responsibility ahead of us: to assure the preservation and accessibility of over 100 years of recorded sound,” Bilard said two years ago at the National Recording Presevation Board’s first meeting. “The sounds of our times, and those of the 20th century, will be experienced first-hand by generations to come when we accomplish this important goal...
...understand it, this is an extraordinary moment for undergraduate education at Harvard...as the structure of the curriculum is revisited, to develop many ways of ensuring that all students have opportunities for significant first-hand experience and engagement with the world beyond the borders of the United States,” she said...
...Rehr Productions; 24pp.; $2.95 each) is a two-issue series that recounts the author's experience of September 11, 2001. Living with his wife and two young sons in the Battery Park City complex of apartment buildings that were mere blocks from the catastrophe, his story gives a first-hand account of the chaos visited on lower Manhattan that day. While there have been many memoir comix about 9/11 (see TIME.comix reviews: part one; part two), most of them recount the mediated experience of those outside of ground zero. "Tuesday" gives us the first detailed, longform story of living through...
...first-hand look into the making of significant films, The Conversations would be of interest to cinema-lovers only. But as a passionate love-letter to creativity in its subtlest forms, it appeals to anyone interested in what we nobly call...
Such progressive thinking can only be fostered if the task forces are carefully composed of students, faculty, administrators and recent alumni. It is essential that each individual bring a different perspective to the discussion. The students will be invaluable; they are the only ones with first-hand understanding of the current system. There should be sophomores, juniors and seniors on every committee to ensure continuity throughout the process and maintain institutional memory. But students have not yet put Harvard’s education to work in the outside world. For such a perspective, recent alumni will be essential?...