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...thing, the study of literature and art has the power to illuminate the human experience in a way that no other mode of inquiry can. We agree with the Task Force on General Education’s general position that courses in general education should provide undergraduates with relevant instruction. But “relevant” does not necessarily mean “immediately practical,” especially at an institution of liberal arts. To treat literature and the arts as mere tools for the investigation of different societies—essentially, the philosophy...
...minute tutorial will instruct audience members to follow the red-light and green-light cues for their phones before the concert opens with "Redes," a piece by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. Green light means turn your phone on and/or play you ringtone; red means let the orchestra take charge. Chiming in with the Sinfonietta will be two accomplished young musicians: pianist Alexander Kobrin from Moscow, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No.2 in A major, and violinist Melissa White playing Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor...
Hamas is a Sunni organization, but it has no known ties to al-Qaeda. When bin Laden's band tried to instruct Hamas on how to proceed after it won Palestinian elections in January, the group--which takes pride in its homegrown, independent character--told al-Qaeda to buzz off, according to Hamas and Israeli intelligence sources. Hamas accepts limited assistance from Iran, and some of its leaders take sanctuary in Syria, but the group holds both countries at arm's length...
...breakfast, can do little more than brace for the next attack. "The situation is very bad," he says, his sentences punctuated by the sound of Israeli artillery fire, a crack-boom followed by a lingering zing of the outgoing shell, as loudspeakers in the village instruct residents to take cover in hardened shelters. "We've had six years of peace," he says, "but everything has come back...
...initiative to digitize and make available online the vast holdings of the libraries of several major public and university libraries, including Harvard. Nevertheless, some publishers protested Google’s decision to digitize print works on the grounds of copyright infringement. Google, for its part, allowed publishers to instruct it which books not to scan at all. While we understand the concerns of the publishers, copyright laws are not meant as a means to keep information protected, but rather as a way to disseminate it justly, keeping in mind the labor of the writers and editors. Furthermore, readers would...