Word: ganges
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Thankfully, the Gen Ed Committee’s so-called Gang of Five, meeting clandestinely over the summer, has brought a sense of reason to the process that only a junta can. But will promised “portal” courses be any less vapid than the pipe dream of “Harvard College Courses” promised to be? Will they be mandatory and well-taught, or merely a re-christening of things we already have, with the added dignity of being recognized, rather meaninglessly, as foundational but only recommended...
...committee, one of six in the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review, met in full last Friday for the first time this academic year to discuss a new draft report on general education circulated among the committee members last week. Several members of the committee, christened the “Gang of Five,” met throughout the summer to compose the new report, laying the intellectual and practical foundations for undergraduate education at Harvard...
...There is another round of work to be done on the document but I think that will happen fairly quickly,” said Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one member of the “Gang of Five.” “I would assume in a week or two there will be a document which will be more publicly circulated and people will start to weigh...
...don’t quite fit, from the portrayal of the mean Noah Claypole to the clever Artful Dodger. Luckily for the audience, the narrative emphasis is taken off Oliver and the other children in favor of more complex characters like Fagin (Ben Kingsley), the leader of the pickpocket gang...
Here’s the setup of the film: Nerdy Crimson Editor gets kicked out of school for a crime he didn’t commit, and goes to England. There, he joins a football street gang. Right off the bat, he just starts beating fools up. And from the look of the trailers, he seems to feel great about...