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...It’s also another missed opportunity at an NCAA championship, a highlight that is yet to be included in Stone’s otherwise extensive and highly decorated coaching résumé. Harvard did win a national trophy under Stone in the American Women’s College Hockey Coaches Association (AWCHA) national title game in 1999, but since the NCAA began holding a college women’s hockey tournament, the Crimson has appeared in the championship game on three occasions and lost each time...
...William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard and member of the Oversight Committee for the conference. “The fact that a lot of composers and musicians were moving back and forth from Europe and America during the course of the 20th century is often not highlighted through research, so it is what we plan to do with this conference.”Among the topics discussed will be Nadia Boulanger and her role as an example of the musical communication that occurred between America and Europe. As a member of the Radcliffe faculty for Music Composition...
...each conflict is ignored in the reporting of history. “These conflicts are still going on, we are still feeling the effects of them,” Marks said. “So history has not had time to judge. Day two of the conference will highlight the relationship between the conduct of these wars and the postcolonial landscape. Four more panels today will present on conflicts in Zimbabwe, Vietnam, Algeria, Rwanda and the Congo...
...they retreat into passivity or run far, far away into delusion.Tsutsui’s own detached narrative voice allows the reader to laugh at events that would otherwise be overly pathetic or horrifying. The clever blend of science fiction and realism allows Tsutsui to defamiliarize the familiar and highlight certain similarities that wouldn’t otherwise be obvious. The routine parts of life—worries about what the boss will say, or the wife will do, or the men will think—are emphasized even more against the backdrop of absurd calamities—a plane...
...rules will go one step further than that. Not only will they identify schools that need support to improve, but they will help highlight reforms that are actually working. Take, for example, efforts in Georgia, where a graduation coach is assigned to each high school to ensure students stay on track. The program is only a few years old, but the state's graduation rate appears to be rising. The new call for federal data will help other states determine whether a program like Georgia's would be a good use of their resources. Plus, more accurate information may ultimately...