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...kind of interest in examination performance and grades was severely discouraged,” he wrote in an autobiographical statement upon receiving the Nobel Prize. The teachers instead emphasized the importance of genuine curiosity as the impetus behind education and, ultimately, creative thought. Under this eccentric tutelage, Sen considered careers in physics, mathematics and Sanskrit before deciding to pursue economics...
...Assistant Attorney General R. Alexander Acosta described a joint project with Mississippi to reopen the 1955 inquiry into the death of 14-year-old Emmett Till because "information has been brought to our attention that suggests that other individuals may have been involved in the murder." A main impetus, he said, was an unfinished documentary by novice director Keith Beauchamp...
Students say the impetus for the policy was that managers felt “uncomfortable” being around employees who were speaking languages they did not understand...
...decorating among their hierarchies of worry. Nevertheless, Yee-Fan Sun ’96 advises those on the verge of graduation to think seriously about this issue and offers creative aesthetic advice for this age group on DigsMagazine.com. Though a VES concentrator, Sun's art classes were not the impetus for beginning this venture. “It was more what I didn’t learn at Harvard—I had this advanced degree and an apartment full of boxes. I was uncertain how to fit everything together,” she says...
...decorating among their hierarchies of worry. Nevertheless, Yee-Fan Sun ’96 advises those on the verge of graduation to think seriously about this issue and offers creative aesthetic advice for this age group on DigsMagazine.com. Though a VES concentrator, Sun's art classes were not the impetus for beginning this venture. “It was more what I didn’t learn at Harvard—I had this advanced degree and an apartment full of boxes. I was uncertain how to fit everything together,” she says...