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That said, we do agree with Khazei on one major point: health care. We certainly appreciate the strong pro-choice position taken by Capuano, who says he opposes the health-care bill so long as it contains the Stupak amendment restricting abortion rights. We urge a Senator Capuano to vote for health-care reform regardless of the amendment—and we ultimately have faith that he will do so. Unlike one of his opponents, Attorney General Martha M. Coakley, he has not ruled it out entirely, saying that the current bill is still miles away from the final version...
Over the past several years, Harvard has begun to offer a few dance-related courses for college credit and has introduced a secondary field of study in dramatic arts, but there is still no major dance presence in the curriculum. The leadership of the Harvard Dance Program continues to express a desire to see more dance classes offered for credit in the coming years...
Burt, a poetry writer and scholar by profession, has taught such English department staples as “Modern American Poetry” and “Major British Writers II” since arriving at the university in 2007. But he is also a longtime student of science fiction. Once a childhood reader of Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov, he now writes course syllabi and critical articles on the genre...
...class fills a void for these Harvard students by introducing them to authors they would otherwise not have come across. “Most Harvard College students could discover major SF prose writers such as James Tiptree and Cordwainer Smith on their own,” Burt explains, “but you don’t unpack your bags in Matthews knowing all of these writers already, unless you’re quite an unusual reader.” With the intention of cultivating more ‘unusual readers,’ the course presents an eccentric syllabus...
...addition to Harvard’s location and name recognition, Moore cited the chance to “win the Ivy League for the first time in Harvard’s history, to do something that had never been done before,” as a major factor in his choice...