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...civic illiteracy of Harvard students is an embarrassment to us all. The Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America’s Founding Principles has spoken, and we would be fools not to listen. Harvard’s first duty is to its country, and its mission is clear; if we’re not educating American citizens, then we’ve lost our raison d’être. (That’s French.) The threat to Harvard’s integrity posted by the influx of internationals must be crushed immediately...
...Derek” revisits the band’s early obsession with acoustic folk. At the core of all this schizophrenic songwriting, however, is Animal Collective’s strongest diptych yet—two songs, thirteen minutes all together, and the closest thing to a mission statement by the band. They’ve always been aware that song pairs can unlock synergistic power—see 2004’s “Sung Tongs” openers “Leaf House” and “To Catch a Rabbit” for proof?...
...Lola Luv” Fershgenet. 50 Cent “Ayo Technology (ft. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)” Dir. Joseph Kahn The sleaziest of the bunch. Fiddy and the Timbertwins, much like the cast of “American Pie,” are on a mission to score, but unlike Stifler & Co., they have many, many gadgets at their disposal. The video is interspersed with shots that are supposed to evoke night-vision goggles but actually evoke amateur pornography, which is probably what they were actually supposed to evoke anyway. Fiddy drives to a brothel and gets blindfolded...
...that such a museum could fit in, either in terms of its design or the history it depicted. Going inside the museum only intensified this strange tension between knowledge and bewilderment. Like all museums, the Jewish Museum naturally functions as a way to disseminate information, a mission that it carries out admirably. Designers spread exhibits along three “axes”: the Axis of Continuity, which leads to a large collection of displays about Jewish life in Berlin before and after National Socialism; the Axis of Exile, which treats the situation of Jews who fled Germany...
...could we not know about this!’” Riedl recalls. And informing the public about lesser-known subjects—such as IDD or POWs who choose not to return home—is part of the festival’s mission. Documentary “can illuminate the topics in a way that hearing a lecture can’t,” says Erica D. Sanger, program manager at the United Nations Association of Greater Boston and Boston festival coordinator. “It’s the next best thing to being able...