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...Latin American Studies is generally marginalized at most universities, and Brazil tends to be marginalized even within those programs,” Maxwell said, referring to the fact that most students who study Latin America gain proficiency in Spanish but not Portuguese...
...started out as such a faint hope for New York Senator Charles Schumer that he hardly dared voice it. But as more and more Republicans retire or become engulfed by scandal, it has become irresistibly imaginable: the idea that Democrats might gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate after the 2008 elections. "It's a very remote chance and every star would have to align correctly," Schumer, who heads the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, told TIME. "But it's way too early to make predictions...
...rhythmically dour “Alligator.” While their decision not to play older favorites may seem strange, it makes sense given the pattern of The National’s rise to popularity. It took months for “Alligator” to gain full appreciation (a “grower,” everyone called it), and the fan-base has slowly expanded again since the release of “Boxer...
...practices, or to increase affordable housing or avert nuclear proliferation—or translated into therapies, like those our researchers have designed to treat macular degeneration or to combat anthrax. The expansion of knowledge means change. But change is often uncomfortable, for it always encompasses loss as well as gain, disorientation as well as discovery. It has, as Machiavelli once wrote, no constituency. Yet in facing the future, universities must embrace the unsettling change that is fundamental to every advance in understanding...
...group needed to specify “Harvard College.” With a sigh of relief, they changed the name to the Harvard College Stand-Up Comedy Society (HCSUCS).Such stand-up comedy groups have no real precedent at Harvard, but Greenbaum and Ingber have managed to gain a foothold for HCSUCS in the world of the arts on campus, as well as the world at large.GESTATIONThe gestation of the group began in 2006 at the annual Demon Comedy Festival, when Greenbaum and Ingber recognized a void in the Darwinian social order of campus organizations.Within a matter of months...