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...College must wait further to fill their teaching gaps. The Economics Department is now searching for only one junior faculty member instead of two, the Classics Department cannot fill an intellectual vacancy in Greek history, and the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department will not be hiring a pre-modern Japanese history professor...
...working on a fair number of projects where history comes into play,” he said. Other aspiring filmmakers opt to make their art the focus of their college education. But even at its most technical, Harvard’s film program is not pre-professional. The VES department, through the courses it offers, requires students to complement their practical knowledge of the field with a strong philosophical understanding of the craft. “Students use the camera to explore and interrogate the world for the stories, issues and characters it might reveal,” explained...
Nolan had prepared for the excitement by “pre-gaming the game...
...pre-game musical preparation: "Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers practiced their twelve minutes of music for at least twelve hours, while the technical aspects of the program-from the logistics of rolling the stage on and off the field to the roles of the hundreds of extras to the places of the pyrotechnics-were practiced even more without the band on hand. Even Jordin Sparks' rendition of the National Anthem-two minutes and nine seconds long-was practiced again and again...
Four days after the fatwa went out, students continued to fill the classrooms of Jakarta's Jakartadoyoga Studio. On Jan. 28, the influential Indonesian Ulemas Council issued a religious edict forbidding all Indonesian Muslims to practice yoga that incorporates pre-Hindu religious rituals such as meditation and chanting. And while students at the yoga studio admitted they had heard about the proclamation, which allows yoga only for the purpose of exercise or sport, they say it won't deter them from attending classes in the popular Indian practice. "Issuing a fatwa is not the way to settle a controversy...