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...abroad helps students “place what they‘ve learned here at Harvard in a larger context.”For her second semester, Campbell enrolled as a student at Queen Mary, University of London. Again, she took four very different courses, with varying degrees of focus on sociology. Despite one class change that had to be reapproved and an extended period of time before she received her grade for another class, Campbell eventually received four full credits from her year abroad. This was the same amount she would have received had she taken four courses...
...terms of worrying about my schedule and if I’ll have enough time to take the right classes, my philosophy is just get it done any way possible,” Murphy said. “I always focus on being a college football player, being a doctor, and my faith as well—I make sure I always get those three done before anything else...
...nation’s top graduates. After all, the economy will at some point recuperate, and positions at Wall Street firms will return. And when they do, our nation must still work toward increasing the appeal and prestige of public sector work. In the meantime, this increased focus on public service and education specifically should be appreciated. As students’ motives to pursue TFA may vary, so too will their backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives—and this diversity can only benefit our nation’s classrooms...
...Some people will question screenwriter Peter Buchman's narrow focus on two military campaigns - the successful rebellion that led to the taking of Havana, Guevara's disastrous operation in Bolivia nine years later - while ignoring Che's role in mass executions in Cuba after the revolution and his ill-advised adventures in West Africa (where Egypt's Nasser correctly predicted Guevara would be coming in as Tarzan among the natives). Others will wonder at the odd lack of dramatic incident among all the warfare. But you really can't argue with Buchman and Soderbergh about the movie they didn...
...Prize winner named to a presidential Cabinet (he won the Physics prize in 1997 for work involving lasers), Chu is "absolutely brilliant," according to Scott Anderson, a senior energy adviser for the Environmental Defense Fund. But more important, Chu - who put his research on hold in recent years to focus on climate change - understands that it will be technological leaps in the way we use energy that will truly whip warming, not U.N. summits...