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...have quite similar backgrounds: both finished formal schooling early, left their family homes and started TV careers at 16. The parents of both separated. "Michelle's twice as uncomfortable in interviews as I am," says Ledger. He doesn't add, "And even better at acting." But we like to imagine he was thinking...
Still, an institution older than its own country cannot escape its past, no matter how hard it tries. Harvard wouldn’t be Harvard without fireplaces in dorm rooms, oak-paneled libraries, formal dances, and a whiff of social superiority. Fitzsimmons readily acknowledges that gaining acceptance to Harvard, “to put it starkly, puts you in a position of power.” The University’s elitism is part of its allure, and its image-makers have an interest in maintaining that myth. The face of Harvard wears several masks, depending on which audience...
...program intended to replace the current Core Curriculum, many expressed concern that the proposed program offered too little direction for students and failed to live up to its potential as a seminal statement of education principle.The event, which filled the Faculty Room of University Hall, represented the first formal opportunity for response to the report since its release earlier this month.Comments echoed the internal debates of the committee that authored the report, including a call for the addition of a moral reasoning requirement.Representatives of the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) and the Committee on General Education began the meeting by summarizing...
Webmail is several grades trickier. Used by professors, recruiters, and parents alike, e-mail has become more formal since the original introduction of @aol.com—although it’s still a great way to communicate with friends abroad, sisters at work, and good-looking strangers that you meet on the subway during the commute to your summer internship and look very normal but could be axe-murderers. (While he turned out not to be violent, he was unhappily married, a slight turn-off I dare...
...events be channeled to groups that can have the most impact on student life: HoCos and the FYSC. HoCo-planned events such as the Mather Lather and the Leverett 80s dance are among the best large-scale gatherings on this campus, and while the FYSC throws a fine Freshman Formal, it could do a lot more to unite the freshman class if it received greater funding. Intimately connected to student life through the physical connection of the Houses and freshman dorms, HoCos and the FYSC will be more responsive to what social events students are demanding, be they huge dances...