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...Thursday also brought news of Barack Obama's 2008 book earnings - with the same publisher, Crown. The President picked up $2.5 million in royalties last year for his memoir Dreams from My Father (139 weeks and counting on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list) and The Audacity of Hope (64 weeks on the same list). Add that to Obama's 2007 haul of $4 million for the same two books. Obama already has a contract to write a third nonfiction book for Crown when he leaves office. Crown also announced Thursday that Dreams from My Father would be adapted...
...Harvard baseball team looks to rebound from a four-game sweep last weekend at the University of Alabama-Birmingham with yet another southern tour—this time through Louisiana. The Crimson (1-7) will hope to solidify its pitching rotation and get the bats moving more consistently over the next week before opening Ivy League play the following weekend.“We’re hoping to be a little more consistent and play some complete games,” senior Tom Stack-Babich said. “We’ve played well in parts of each...
...informal debate about this particular philosophy.Croft and Clapp insist that finding a definition of creativity, while vague, is urgent for practical purposes. Troubled by how an increase in standardized testing in public schools and higher instruction has pushed arts education to the periphery of curricula, Croft and Clapp hope the group will offer suggestions for ways that creativity should be taught or encouraged in elementary and secondary schools, as well as in universities.“The arts are not in danger… but the arts don’t have the educational importance that the strength in society...
...most strategic location for the show.Prices will start at around $20, appealing to both student palates and student budgets, and increase to indeterminately higher numbers. The higher-priced pieces will target professors, collectors, and curators. Through such a wide range of prices, the show’s organizers hope to make student art more readily accessible to a wide range of buyers.Spies-Gans and Wang first conceived the idea for the show at the annual Harvard arts leaders’ luncheon, where undergraduate Jane K. Cheng ’09 raised the question of where students could sell their pieces...
...Everyone applies for a lot of grants and you keep applying and hope that one or another of these will get funded,” he said...