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...free to do so. Harvard is just as free to make certain sacrifices in order to raise wages and make conditions a little less painful for some of its workers. But to couch the demand for higher wages in the language of universal rights—which does not lend itself to the comparison of potential costs and benefits—is at best a misunderstanding and at worst a political ploy...
...information matter.” In some ways, the interweaving lines of the work may begin to indicate his confrontation of the legacy of Jackson Pollock. However, Winters’ webs, supposedly representative of an boundless and dynamic “space,” do not lend themselves well to the finite space of the prints. They feel constrained and cluttered, lacking the delicate elegance of his earlier prints. Although the subject matter has three dimensions, the representation limits the sense of depth and adds to the sense of clutter. Unlike his work in biological forms, Winters seems perhaps...
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, students and faculty, alumni and parents, lend me your ears, for I have come upon an easy and obvious solution to one of the most pressing issues facing Harvard today—nay, facing all of undergraduate education. This absolutely burning exigency, this situation which threatens to topple everything that is good and pure about the rearing of students, is of course—I shudder even to mention the term—grade inflation...
Summers said the University would cooperate fully with lawful criminal investigations of students but would be “unwilling to lend support to any investigation...motivated by no more than racial profiling...
Oleanna is a play with just two characters. With such a small cast it should lend itself well to exploring conflict. It features a female college student and a male professor. She wants a better grade and perhaps something else, maybe power over her life. He wants tenure and a new house and also perhaps something else, maybe a captive audience to listen to his musings on education. Their sexes, interests and relative positions all establish the sort of inherent conflict that a dynamic play requires—and yet no conflict comes across in the production of Anthony Gabriele...