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...what counts for devoted and effective mentoring in the graduate school at Harvard,” she said. While the students and professors in attendance did not discuss undergraduate advising, one student said that graduate students—who are often advisors for undergraduates—can gain insight into advising from their own mentors. “We really care about [undergraduate] advising as graduate students,” Winthrop House Residential Tutor Jamie L. Jones ’00 said before the ceremony. “When we have a role model ourselves for what a good adviser...
...members of the military consistently paint themselves as ignorant thugs, spouting phrases such as, “I’m a soldier. Give me some shit to blow up.” With its flawed, but gripping, portrayal of Iraq, the film tries to supply both drama and insight, but it can’t get either quite right. Yet you have to give Haas some credit: if the audience leaves the theatre hopeless and unsatisfied, it’s somewhat fitting for a film about Iraq...
...Electoral College has passed. Our Founding Fathers created the current system in order to protect the interests of small states and to preserve a much-desired federalism. They also shared a belief that designated state electors would be well-educated and engaged citizens, who would have more insight than the populace—many of whom were illiterate, uninformed, and days, if not weeks, away from Washington...
...latest book, Sen argues that “violence is fomented by the imposition of singular and belligerent identities on gullible people.” Using historical examples and a personable style, Sen creates a simple yet powerful discourse on individual choice and identity that offers valuable insight on people from all social and political contexts.Sen presents a cogent theory about the structure of modern society by positing that each person has many ways to define him- or herself—nationality, gender, religion, and ethnicity being among the almost infinite possibilities.The crux of Sen’s argument lies...
...relatively untouched. To me, books are a remnant from the old order when people still luxuriated in bubble baths and drank dry martinis. So when both Random House and HarperCollins announced they had a new way of combining technology and literature, I was skeptical. Last week, Random House introduced Insight, a new browsing feature on their Web site that enables users to search and read excerpts from over 5,000 of its books. HarperCollins recently installed a similar feature, though both of them are years behind Amazon.com, which has allowed peeks into the titles on its site since...