Word: progressives
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...doesn’t deteriorate. There are some things that will deteriorate, there are some that may never deteriorate, so there is a lot of variety there but you try to do as well as an institution can.”Currently, the Straus Center is making groundbreaking progress, using new techniques to repair five pieces from a mural cycle sent by Mark Rothko to Harvard in the 1960s. The murals, which were one of only three made, were displayed for almost a quarter of a century in the penthouse of the Holyoke Center. But overexposure to sun on this...
...visceral mobs of Spike Lee.A twist concerning the culprit of the original threats offers an interesting initial shock, but the lack of satisfying explanation renders it irrelevant to the movie’s larger message. A student forms a new discussion group—supposedly a symbol of progress on campus—but reveals he only wants the extracurricular to pad his law school application.The open ending of “Spinning Into Butter” does not lead to a nuanced or fresh way of discussing race relations. Instead, the loose ends result in any number of dubious...
...This is a challenge, and we can respond to the challenge by being upbeat,” Ivinson said. “We know it will be tough, but any day that we don’t make progress in the disease we are treating, the urgency grows. We are not going to back...
...global economy when it was first called just four months ago, it's now clear that this meeting is likely to be anticlimactic at best and, at worst, a dangerous failure. Clever civil servants are already working on a draft final communiqué that will suggest great progress has been made. A skeptical and worried world is unlikely to believe...
...said. “It was like a section that’s a free-for-all.” Between 2004 and 2006, with 12 other committees exploring different areas of the undergraduate experience, and no one clearly in charge of the main Gen Ed committee, progress was slow. In January 2006, the committee finally agreed on a distribution requirement that would include all classes in the FAS course catalog, Simmons said, because it was simply the only thing they could agree on: a “common denominator...