Word: intersections
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...music. “We want people in music, but we want more than that,” Oja said. “This appeals to people in Jewish studies, in gender studies.” Shelemay also stressed the range of interests and skills that the seminar will intersect with, adding that “what’s great about seminars like this is you get professors and students with different expertise.” The culmination of the Bernstein seminar will be a festival celebrating Bernstein’s life, to be held at Harvard in October...
...Rent”’s pop-rock songs and video montages fail to show the horror of AIDS, losing the essence of what is, at its heart, a terrible tragedy.“Rent” is at its most disgustingly absurd where HIV/AIDS and poverty intersect. The film’s characters can’t afford to pay rent, but they have no trouble getting expensive medications. For a film that claims to be about poverty and disease, “Rent” is shockingly silent on the ways poverty interacts with illness to make...
...Jason Robert Brown, consists of fourteen songs, which the actors alternate singing. The play simultaneously advances and rewinds through time, with Jamie narrating the relationship from its beginning to its end while Catherine recounts the relationship in reverse, from the breakup to their first kiss. The two reveries intersect only briefly at the middle—just long enough for Jamie and Catherine to kiss, sway, and say, “I do.” This circular structure leaves little room for serious character or plot development, and the audience doesn’t glean much beyond the basic...
...cover too much material too fast. These are the same people who rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...
...solves several complex problems with a simple trade. The Army's problem is that too many officers are leaving after their minimum five-year commitment. The cadets' problem is that if you don't have excellent grades, you often can't get the branch you want. The problems intersect because studies have shown that cadets who got their first choice were 10% more likely to stay beyond their minimum service. The simple proposal, beta-tested on the class of '05, was to have cadets bid on how much extra service--a minimum ante of 18 months--they would be willing...