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...summer of 2002, the first hints of a Harvard education arrived in my mailbox: a small book of required reading meant to provide the fodder for freshman week discussions with members of the Faculty. The selection of essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” by former Dean of the College and current professor...
...also sees areas such as sociology and anthropology as underrepresented and aims to institutionalize better connections with the law school. Although she joined the government department only in 2003, Simmons has already made an impact. “In the few years she’s really become a mainstay colleague in the department,” said Chair of the Government Department Nancy L. Rosenblum ’69. “There’s no one who doesn’t think she’s a superb replacement for Jorge Domínguez...
...time police and troop reinforcements arrived from Australia to bolster the Regional Assistance Mission that has been providing security in the Solomons since 2003, most of Honiara's shopping hub had been razed, nine police cars burned and 32 Australian officers injured. Hundreds of ethnic Chinese, the mainstay of the limping economy, fled the country...
...Private-sector apprenticeships have long been a mainstay of Germany's robust vocational-education program - so much so that in 2004, 58% of students finished high school with three-year training contracts in hand. Historically, more than two-thirds of the trainees end up with permanent job offers by the time those contracts are up. And despite increasing pressure from globalization and a shrinking labor market at home, 23% of all German companies continue to offer apprenticeships, a remarkable statistic, given that it takes into account every one-man shop as well as every megacorporation...
...sound (“I don’t fuck with that industry flow”), but his resistance to the trappings of mass appeal has waned. Turns out that he does indeed “fuck with that industry dough.” Political consciousness, previously a lyrical mainstay for the Peoples, makes only a few appearances on the record, and none of it brings along any weight. “You Can’t Hide, You Can’t Run”— which features a beat that Kanye already...