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...Leverett House master in 1990. The artist, Jerald Webster, made three paintings and the master chose which one his house would display. I can only imagine how ugly the other two must have been. 2. The mural in Quincy Dining Hall. It’s like a really big, flat sand castle turned on its side and painted. Enough said. 3. Laurence Tribe’s paintings. Why is a superstar professor of constitutional law painting pictures to illustrate constitutional history? And why are they so bad? 4. The “Sun Gate” in the Leverett Courtyard...
...John Barrett, the principal of Farmington High School, is a fervent disciple of the theories espoused in Thomas Friedman's book, The World Is Flat, about vanishing U.S. economic supremacy on the now-level global playing field, and he worries that complacent Americans are perilously close to sliding off the edge. He distributed copies of the book to teachers last spring and made it the sole topic for discussion at the first faculty meeting this fall. To build a less xenophobic student body, students are served a steady diet of internationally focused programs and projects...
...back-to-basics climate of NCLB. Kids also must learn to think across disciplines, since that's where most new breakthroughs are made. It's interdisciplinary combinations--design and technology, mathematics and art--"that produce YouTube and Google," says Thomas Friedman, the best-selling author of The World Is Flat...
...brings the same aw-shucks, ingenuous façade to his character that he had in this fall’s Mainstage play, “The Marriage of Bette and Boo.” The HRDC veteran’s somewhat one-dimensional performance, although comical, occasionally falls flat in “Bench Seat”–but Hoagland’s presence becomes exponentially more powerful and direct in his second appearance, in the drama “Merge...
...definitely wanted to pick up the energy in the second half,” Goffredo said. “Both teams looked a little flat in the first half. We were able to push up [the energy] at a good time, because the game was pretty close...