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...select disciplines. A discipline is a perspective. It is meant to be a tool or lens, with which we decipher and study the world around us—it is not to be studied exclusively in itself. No wonder, Harvard’s long-time insistence on joint concentrations disallowed the pursuit of two fields in separation. What is important is not the fields in themselves but the perspective we gain from them (with multidisciplinary exposure simply meaning broader perspective), and so, under the old structure, joint concentrators were forced to make connections between their interests. Now, by shifting...
...benefits was generally something like: "Anything can happen here but I give you my word that I'll do the very best I possibly can". He meant it - and they knew it - and however the operations came out they loved him. (Remember these were the early days of joint replacement and they didn't always work...
Brian Knep is wary of technology.“There’s no personal connection, and I hate that,” he says. However, the artist uses computers on a daily basis to produce work for his joint fellowship with the Office for the Arts and Harvard Medical School—the first of its kind here at Harvard. Does that make his work a contradiction, or some kind of revolutionary synthesis?As with all aspects of Knep’s work, the answer depends on the day you experience it.Using a novel form of semi-interactive computer...
...really addresses male-female relationships in the black community, how they play off one another,” Gentry explains. “With a fusion of the two originals into one entity, the men and women are now able to interact and respond to one another, in a joint dialogue about family, hardships, and everything in between.” “rainbow/streets” hopes to live up to its colorful title through the illustration of various emotions and personalities. The creative focus on the play’s language requires the audience member to keep...
...killing may have been about much more than settling old scores. Donaldson was killed two days before the Prime Ministers of Britain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, were due to launch a joint plan for reviving the faltering political process in Northern Ireland. Thanks to continuing mistrust between Protestant unionist leaders and Sinn Fein, efforts to restart the kind of coalition local government that was borne out of the 1998 Good Friday peace accords have been stalled for the past three years. And the murder of Donaldson, a convicted IRA bomber who served time in prison along with...