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...secondary fields and moved back concentration choice, advocated a service-based model of education.Students, he said, need “the capacity to engage in moral reasoning and to have sufficient empathy to use that ability and to participate in public affairs.”And Wolfson Professor of Jewish History Jay M. Harris called distribution requirements “an abdication of faculty responsibility,” saying that professors should consider implementing several models of general education simultaneously.In yesterday’s speech, Summers said that “improving the experience of students of Harvard College?...
...race head-on: should ethnicity be a factor in granting citizenship? There are a small number of respectable scholars, like Harvard's Samuel P. Huntington, who argue that the large Hispanic influx into America does threaten its character. A large number of other respectable scholars say German, Irish, Italian, Jewish and Asian immigrants faced the same criticism throughout the country's history. But until politicians define the goals of American immigration policy - who and how many do we want and for what reason - it will be impossible to strip out the influence of anti-immigrant forces who, whether racist...
...Alone with Pollack, he fills us in on his background: Humble beginnings in a Jewish family in Toronto, where he liked to build little toy cities on the living room floor, and where a teacher suggested at an early age that architecture might be something he?d like to explore. After that the Gehrys moved to Los Angeles, where he drove a truck for a couple of years (once delivering a kitchen suite to Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, who took a shine to the kid) and where he eventually enrolled at the USC architecture school. There he somehow managed...
...Volz weren't the only trip members who were doing favors for Abramoff around the time of the Scotland trip. Two days before Abramoff sent Safavian the schedule for the junket, he asked him for some help in finding a location for a Jewish orthodox school he was looking to build in Maryland for his children to attend. Abramoff wanted to get land from the government, and Safavian, as chief of staff for the General Services Administration, the agency that controls government property, advised him that he should get Congress to order GSA to sell or lease the land...
...said he was inspired to write Everyman by growing old, seeing friends die (including author Saul Bellow) and realizing that few novelists have written about the simple process of death. Everyman is essentially a medical biography. It begins at its end: the protagonist's burial in a rundown Jewish cemetery in New Jersey near his parents. It then returns to the beginning, cataloging his brushes with mortality--a drowned sailor washes up near his boyhood home during WWII, a burst appendix nearly kills him in his 30s--then jumps to his old age, a parade of annual hospitalizations. In between...