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...show, it is pretty funny. But it’s not perfect. Colbert’s interview with guest Stone Phillips during the premier felt awkward. It’s one thing, as Sacha Baron Cohen does so well in the Ali G show, to take on a different persona to interview someone who has no idea who you are; when the interviewee is in on the joke, it feels like a waste of our time...
...similarly noble purpose. The educational and research efforts that Harvard sponsors around the globe are making this world a better place. Harvard grants allow low-income students to attend the College with no parental contribution. They sponsor groundbreaking medical research (which, among other things, has made Harvard the premier place for stem-cell research in the U.S.), and they sponsor initiatives to solve longstanding health, poverty, and cultural issues. Every cent that Harvard spends to enhance its public image by matching donations to disaster relief materially disadvantages these efforts—efforts which, ultimately, have more value than relief itself...
...ironic that after spending almost two decades as students, so few of us give a second of thought to teaching. Perhaps not all of us are meant to spend our entire lives presiding over the classroom, but I would argue that everyone who makes it to a premier educational institution like Harvard should at least give it a try. Here are my top ten reasons why:10. Unleash your creativity: Teaching doesn’t have to fit the stereotype presented in that classic movie of 1986 (anyone? anyone?): “Ferris Bueller?...
...Every year is different, but the meaning of this game is that Harvard is one of the premier programs in the Ivy League,” Knowles said. “We’re trying to do the best we can and see where we measure...
...adopted city, which made it a public museum. That Japanese buddha now reigns over a newly renovated Musée Cernuschi. After nearly a century of refining and adding to Cernuschi's acquisitions, plus a three-year, $9 million refurbishment, the museum has reopened as one of Europe's premier collections of Chinese art - a coherent, chronological trove of works from the Neolithic period to the 13th century. Cernuschi loved ancient bronzes - decorative, ceremonial and technologically sophisticated artifacts from China's earliest history. Among his acquisitions in the museum's extensive bronze collection is an enormous basin from...