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...consulted with the people in University Hall about precedent, and they said we couldn’t legislate on that,” said Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, one of the three who drafted the legislation...
...reasoning behind choosing to adapt “Hansel and Gretel” for this year’s performance. “We decided that we liked Germany,” says Birnbaum. “Last year, we did British accents, and this year we thought German ones would be funny.” The group draws its name from the small area in Radcliffe Yard known as the Sunken Garden, which has served as the troupe’s outdoor theatre for the past decade. Now in its 11th year, the show is firmly established...
...Overkant/Down Under." But like all good court jesters, Kesminas tells salient truths while poking fun-whether at art's over-reliance on theory in Paranoid (courtesy Black Sabbath), at the self-indulgence of Tracey Emin (to the tune of the Police's Roxanne) or at the preciousness of the German art scene (Children of Berlin, by way of Dire Straits' Sultans of Swing.) Says Kesminas, "The art world is really so small when it comes down...
...Harvard’s general education system proposed it over a year ago. Objections raised ranged from it being too vague to it not being able to “put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. True enough. A distribution requirement isn’t a particularly inspiring statement on general education, nor even a particularly intellectually satisfying one. But it does retain the advantages of coherence and practicality. With many options for fulfilling these basic requirements, flexibility for which...
...learned three languages while shooting the movie—Spanish, Japanese, and German,” he said proudly, drawing a round of applause from his audience...