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...paintings spawned similar findings, containing materials not available before 1962 or 1963, according to the study. Despite the growing controversy, Boston College’s McMullen Museum of Art will display the majority of the collection from which the three disputed paintings stem in its “Pollock Matters?? exhibit opening in September. Nancy Netzer, the museum’s director and professor of art history at Boston College, said that the works still merit exhibition and further investigation. “Our aim is to present all of the information that we have...
Flash forward to Harvard in 2006. The United States is at war again, but the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has only one course in specific military matters??Government 1730: “War and Politics.” We have the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, but that is more focused on grand foreign policy machinations rather than military realities on the ground. The Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government is on the right track—good liberals that they are, they’ve managed...
...pass judgment on Harvard students’ behavior as it relates to student life. This year’s “Adminstrative Board Guide for Students” lists the “resolution of alleged infractions of College rules, breaches of community standards, or other disciplinary matters?? as one of its three purposes. By failing to define the abstract notion of “community standards,” however, the Ad Board is presumptuous. Rather than adhering to its intended purpose, namely, to determine the punishment for those actions that fall within a defined discretion...
They say Harvard smells like money, and with $25 billion in the bank, the University can’t help but agree. Still, it’s not just the size of the endowment that matters??it’s what the Harvard diploma can help us kids bilk from outside donors. Grant opportunities are now centrally listed at www.funding.fas.harvard.edu, so go forth and get to lootin?...
West’s 2004 book “Democracy Matters??, widely dismissed by critics as lacking in substance, is a pointed defense of his way of academia. With an entire chapter devoted to explaining “The Necessary Engagement with Youth Culture,” West characterizes his method as a struggle against “technocratic management culture”—a conceptual enemy he equates with “crude” traditionalists like Summers...