Word: presentism
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...also updated concentration requirements with its recently-adopted reforms that include eliminating general exams and having fewer language requirements. For department administrators, the key challenge may be to market these new options in a way that makes their fields both attractive and understandable for potential concentrators. HDRB representatives were present at the Advising Fortnight kickoff dinner in Annenberg Hall on April 6 to inform current freshmen about the new concentration. They will also participate in a Life Sciences Open House on April 13 as well as a panel discussion with Life Sciences Concentration Advisors on April 15. Elias A. Shaaya...
...then what does lifting the ban really prove? On one hand, I think there has been a populist (and justified) desire to reverse many of the restrictions on freedom of speech and press resulting from America’s last two wars. On the other hand, I think our present understanding of privacy has created a sense of entitlement to what is traditionally considered the utmost private and personal aspects of our lives.Before the advent of digital cameras and the internet, photography was used for mostly personal reasons—pictures for a family photo album, for example. You might...
...bookshelf is as basic a resource for body and mind, especially the body and the mind in pain, as the medicine shelf.” You tear down those scarecrows with good reason; no one in their right mind would stand up to defend the arguments as you present them. But to write that pleasure is the only reason to read literature? That there is, ultimately, no social good to be derived from it? That Harold Bloom’s cantankerous—I think you use the word “imperious”—nature, that...
...softer Neil Young can find solace in tracks like “Off the Road” and “Light a Candle.” Their lighter instrumentation, the latter featuring just Young and his acoustic, work to highlight the complex vocal harmonies that were present throughout the album. Young’s uniquely fragile and charming voice shines through, honorably affected by time. Instances like this, in which Young exchanges nagging rhetoric for blunt vulnerability are rare, but rewarding. And though he has his heartfelt moments, it may not be enough to compensate for sitting through...
...individuals’ stories contains similar, overlapping themes—such as hope and redemption in the midst of such a trying ordeal—and their individual narratives are knit together in vignettes that follow their respective arrests, interrogation, incarceration, and eventual exoneration. The theatrical presentation of these paralleled stories questions the presence of justice in the American legal system, while also delving into meaningful moral issues in a more personal and accessible way.“The more I think about the play, the more I realize it has a lot of things to do with perceptions...