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...University’s recognition of the importance of teaching ability among those responsible for students’ education here—its failure to include professors was a glaring omission and one we hope the Faculty corrects next year.This year also saw the release of a landmark report by the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development that sounded the alarm on the sorry state of pedagogy at Harvard. Just as importantly, the report identified the problem as stemming from Harvard’s institutional priorities and culture and recommended 18 concrete changes to begin to fix the problem...
...SAVING A LANDMARK...
...This is what Horace Walpole had in mind with Strawberry Hill, his 18th century faux-medieval villa on the outskirts of London that defied the Neoclassical consensus of his time and triggered the Gothic Revival. It was what Le Corbusier set out to do with the Villa Savoie, the landmark Modernist house. Libeskind, 61, who spent much of his early career as an architectural theoretician and teacher, routinely operates at the same level of ambition. With his most important projects - and Toronto is one of them - he makes what you might call polemical buildings. They're manifestos in metal...
Thailand's Constitutional Tribunal on Wednesday announced the landmark dissolution of the country's former ruling party, further unsettling a nation that has suffered more than a year of political chaos that culminated in last September's military coup. The Thai Rak Thai Party (TRT) - formed by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was ousted in last fall's putsch - was found guilty of electoral fraud stemming from annulled elections last spring. The Tribunal barred more than 100 executives from the party leadership from engaging in political activity for five years after finding that TRT had illegally bankrolled smaller parties...
...downtown streets and may hold Formula One's first night race. For those with more genteel interests, a world-class art-and-science museum is being built near the Marina Bay Sands. Designed by renowned Israeli architect Moshe Safdie, the facility looks on paper to be as distinctive a landmark as the Sydney Opera House-its dramatic roofline resembles flower petals or an upturned palm. "We call it the Hand of Singapore," says George Tanasijevich, general manager of Singapore development for Las Vegas Sands...