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...argue for a later declaration date have argued that 12 to 16 concentration requirements sufficiently prepare students who plan to go to graduate school and enter academia, but such requirements unnecessarily force students with broader academic interests and non-academic career goals to dedicate too much coursework to a narrow field. But Harvard is, after all, an academic institution, and its curriculum should focus on providing students with an education oriented in a specific academic direction. The proposed deadline extension compromises the academic integrity of many concentrations, which require the logical, if time-consuming, progression from introductory lectures to more...
...there is also another side to the 1958 paintings. As narrow as their focus may be in some senses, they still exhibit a dazzling range of technique. In one of my favorite paintings in the show, “Coney Island,” a composition of red and yellow stripes with a bluish rectangle hovering in the center, Stella uses at least two different hues of yellow and three shades of red to give the stripes a mesmerizing glowing effect. The blue rectangle has both white and black paint mixed into the blue, and this variation in tone makes...
...with diplomacy and said, "There is no way." An Associated Press reporter from Rome asked about a tape recorder. "Absolutely no recorder in the library of the pope," the nun replied, then clicked her tongue reprovingly, as if in a movie. The nun hurried reporters along one of the narrow, back corridors of the Vatican, which have marble floors and art hanging on the wall, saying, "That's the way." At one point, I was scolded for an unintentional and mysterious infraction. She said, "You understand English? Do you prefer me to use Latin? Spanish? Italian? No more...
...nowhere to be found, so the whole pool piled into a Press 1, a Mercedes bus. It turned out that driver was also snoozing. When the First Lady's motorcade took off, we all screamed at him to step on it, but he had trouble navigating the narrow car-bomb barriers at the embassy gate, and the motorcade was nowhere to be found. Even worse, as it turned out the tail-end of the motorcade, including the ambulance and some police cars, was now behind us. Once we got predictably stuck in Roman traffic, the Secret Service press agent...
Klatt said he thought Charm School was important, especially for foreign students and those who have been too narrow-minded in their endeavors...