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...when the kids turned 14, Apted convened them again for "an interim report," 7 Plus Seven. That made the habit official, and every seven years since the British telly audience has watched the tykes grow up and old, take their lumps, fight life to a draw - and talk about almost all of it - in a unique string of bio-docs. The series now comprises 21 (1977), 28 Up (1984), 35 Up (1991), 42: forty two up (1998) and 49 Up (2005), which opened in U.S. theaters last month. The latest essay is now available on DVD from First Run Features...
...Mumbai last year. Yet, the conference failed to raise much support, partially because donors rescinded their offers in light of Summers’ departure. (At least one major donor expressed such sentiment outwardly to the South Asian Studies Initiative.) Despite initial setbacks with alumni funding, we encourage the Faculty, Interim President Derek C. Bok, and the next president to reassure donors by demonstrating commitment to South Asian Studies through the provision of initial seed money. Moreover, it is imperative that the current and future University presidents continue with aggressive fundraising efforts. That financial constraints exist is an undeniable reality...
...dispirited members: turn the organization over to us, and they would be off the hook. They agreed.”What followed was a brief period known as the “Monarchy.”“Because the new Board was not elected, we ratified an interim, emergency set of by-laws declaring HRG&SP a monarchy, with me as King and my sister, [Edith S. Marshall ’74] as heir apparent,” Marshall writes.The decision was ratified and accepted by Harvard. “For one full year, I received official correspondence...
...faculty-student committee within the department that offers the course, and then by the relevant subcommittee of the Core Standing Committee, which determines whether the class meets the requirements set forth for the particular field.Sometimes, however, top Harvard administrators get involved in the process to speed things along.In September, Interim Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 were “made aware of the fact that most of the new Humanities general education courses had not, in fact, been considered by the relevant Core sub-committees...
Furthermore, former Princeton President William G. Bowen and interim University President Derek C. Bok show in their book “The Shape of the River” that only one percent of white students at the most selective institutions come from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds, while over 90 percent of students at these selective institutions come from households above the median American income ($60,000 per year). This lack in socioeconomic diversity is also linked to racial diversity, skewing not only students’ perceptions of what is normal or average in this country, but also what racial categories...