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...spent a week training on the ranch of the polo aficionado and actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69. The club plans to compete against Yale, Cornell, Skidmore College, the University of Connecticut, and possibly some other teams in the upcoming school year. —Staff writer Joshua J. Kearney can be reached at kearney@fas.harvard.edu...
...lower-income students in the top tier in reading fall out of it by fifth grade. As economically disadvantaged brainiacs get older, 25% of them drop ranks in math in high school, and 41% don't finish college. "We're losing them at every stage in education," says Joshua Wyner, executive vice president of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which wrote the report with public-policy development firm Civic Enterprises...
...faith forums in New Hampshire, where local clergy and laypeople discuss religious engagement in politics. "We talk about ways people of faith have gone wrong in the past, what they have done right and where they see it going in the future," says his faith-outreach adviser, Joshua DuBois. Speeches on everything from the budget to immigration to stem-cell research are carefully marinated in Scripture. "Science is a gift of God to all of us," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a debate on increased embryo-research funding, "and science has taken us to a place that is biblical...
Shakespearean theater requires the contemporary performer to make an initial choice between tradition and creative reinterpretation. Directed by Joshua Randall and co-produced by Roxanna K. Myhrum ’05 and Benjamin M. Poppel ’09, Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre (HRST) took Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the stage this past Friday in the Loeb Experimental Theatre, but never quite made that choice. Regardless of its ambivalent direction, HRST provided audiences with a successful comedy performed by an enthusiastic, talented cast. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...industry is going through some very troubling and troubled times," said Joshua A. Benton, a Dallas Morning News staff reporter and a 2007 Nieman fellow. "Right now seems like a good time to get away from the newsroom for a bit, because it’s a period of reinvention...