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...points per game and emerging as one of the front-runners for the 10th anniversary Patty Kazmaier Award, given to the top player in women’s college hockey. “I think returning from the Olympics there’s always going to be this notion of how is the transition going to be to the college atmosphere and college hockey,” Chu said. “And for me it’s been so incredibly easy. It’s a testament to what a great fit Harvard has been for me. Academically...
...used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then...
...junta's philosophy is inspired by the revered Thai King's notion of a "sufficiency economy," which "stresses the middle path as the overriding principle for appropriate conduct by the populace at all levels," according to a royal statement. Many Thais, including top economists, aren't quite sure what that means on a practical level - "none of us really understand it, but we can't say anything because it's His Majesty's idea," one Bangkok investment banker told me. But it's safe to assume that a $29,800 meal doesn't hew to the middle path. (In their...
...Career Development, which examined pedagogy at Harvard and was led by the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol. She said that “she was struck by the kind of imagination that is demonstrated in the report,” and that the notion of taking the quality of teaching into account in tenure and pay decisions would “encourage people to be the best teachers they can.” Faust planned to meet with members of both the student and faculty advisory committees to the presidential search on Sunday night...
...Serbs, the independence of Kosovo is nothing short of catastrophe. Most of my compatriots have never been to Kosovo, nor do they intend to go, but that doesn't stop them from having strong feelings about it. Too many Serbs nurture a romantic notion of Kosovo; it is a part of our upbringing, our epic poems and our national mythology. Most Westerners find that difficult to understand, but not me. To find a place as firmly attached to the sense of national identity as Kosovo is to the Serbs, you have to look to the Holy Land's iconic status...