Word: focusing
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...Indeed, if the big primaries now fall so close to the end-of-the-year holidays, many Americans may be too busy with other things (or recovering from them) and not ready to focus on the Presidential race, says University of Texas political science professor Bruce Buchanan. Voters are likely to be hearing Rudy Giuliani's jingles along with "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and find their mailboxes stuffed with Christmas cards from Hillary (and Bill). Buchanan is concerned that the early primaries will energize "the fringes of the two parties," leading to more polarization in the political scene...
...departure in recent years of three Graduate School of Education (GSE) professors who specialized in race relations and civil rights is causing concern and discussion among the school’s affiliates about the need for more faculty of color in GSE’s ranks and a greater focus on race in the school’s curriculum.Last Wednesday, hundreds of students and professors congregated in the Gutman Conference Center for an open forum to address how the school should move forward after the departure of Professor of Education and Social Policy Gary Orfield.Orfield, one of the founder?...
...novelist Gregory, whose book The Other Boleyn Girl is in print in 26 countries, including Japan and Russia, with more than 1 million copies sold in the U.S. Behind the popularity of Gregory's intelligent, well-researched books--including her most recent, The Boleyn Inheritance--is the author's focus on the secret histories of the women on the sidelines of the Tudor era. The Other Boleyn Girl depicts Henry's claustrophobic court from the perspective of Anne's sister Mary, who also bedded the young King but apparently wasn't charming, cunning or foolhardy enough...
...Hollywood’s growing role in American society in the 1950s, said James Hoberman, senior film critic for the Village Voice newspaper, at a seminar yesterday. Speaking to a small gathering of film aficionados at the Carpenter Center, Hoberman offered a preview of his next book, which will focus on the role of “movies as political events and political events as movies” in the 1950s. Hoberman, a visiting lecturer on visual and environmental studies, said the book will focus on the films that he believes reflect the angst that gripped America during that decade...
...Mendelsohn. Ryan, who is a member of the three-person committee charged with drafting the legislation, said the group tried to preserve the language used in passages of the general education report. The committee’s aim, she said, is to “provide a document to focus discussion.” —Staff writer Carolyn F. Gaebler can be reached at cgaebler@fas.harvard.edu