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...week, a crowd gathered quickly, noisily, in one of those convulsions of public feeling that impel strangers to converge on a single spot. They were not there to protest. Dancing, singing and launching fireworks, some 300 men and women came to celebrate a breakthrough political victory. After a nine-hour parliamentary debate, and six long years of delay, a bill granting women the right to vote and to run for public office finally passed. "Our hearts are overflowing with joy and happiness," exulted Fayza al-Awadhi, a member of the Kuwaiti Women's Cultural & Social Society. Giving women the vote...
Kieslowski illustrates each of the Ten Commandments in an hour-long story. Originally made for Polish TV, those tales, whispering instead of thundering their morals, form, as a movie, a tender and unpretentious epic about ordinary people striving to be good in an indifferent world...
Previous studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of developing colon cancer. But research presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week showed that exercise--a brisk hour's walk six times a week--can also reduce the risk of recurrence and death for those who already have the disease...
...call us naïve. Harvard students have all shared the burden of papers due during Reading Period assigned the week before. We’ve all experienced the take-home final due during reading period from the class that also gives a regular final. Behind every poorly worded hour-long essay (one of three on the final), there’s a student who had three essays and a take-home due during the time he or she was supposed to be “reading.” Scenarios like this are only becoming more widespread...
...name professors, we hear much less about Harvard’s world-renowned teachers. The distinction may seem trivial, but it is not. It’s great to have professors with excellent reputations and distinguished accomplishments, but these in themselves don’t make a two-hour lecture stimulating or even bearable. What grabs our attention, makes the time fly by, and, in some cases, even sparks our inspiration are great teachers. We all hope for professors or teaching fellows (TFs) who are not only knowledgeable but engaging, not only experts but teachers...