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...backgrounds that can “ultimately exert broader societal influence in our nation.” Not everyone in TFA is going to or is expected to find a career in education, but their exposure to the public education system should stick with them in whatever field they pursue??bringing education and the problems of social inequality to the forefront of their mind and work. As TFA has matured over the last few decades, it comes as no surprise that a growing number of today’s policymakers are TFA alums. The scope of TFA must...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Teach for What? | 12/14/2008 | See Source »

Concentrators get priority, but those pursuing a secondary field are in some cases treated no differently than those taking the course as an elective. Indeed, on the secondary fields Web site, VES says that “students wishing to pursue??a secondary field are welcome to apply to limited-enrollment classes but will not be given preferential access to them...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Let’s Fix Lotteries | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...Harvard students I have come to know are extraordinary. I mean this not simply in academic terms, but in how creative, passionate, and generous the best of them are, how they manage overwhelming class schedules and long lists of extracurricular activities and still find the time to pursue??and to share with tutors like me—their passion for music, poetry, politics...

Author: By Mary anne Franks | Title: Recollections of the Good | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

Meanwhile the candidates are trying to avoid being “dogged” by issues that troubled their predecessors. To dog, according to the OED: “to follow pertinaciously,” “pursue?? or “track.” The New York Times reports that a new round of Bush campaign ads aims to counter “charges by Democrats that Mr. Bush has lost touch with the people, a charge that had dogged his father in 1992.” Kerry, on the other hand...

Author: By Liora R. Halperin, | Title: Campaign Doggerel | 3/24/2004 | See Source »

...persistent anti-ROTC sentiment on Harvard’s campus. This sentiment, of course, is largely due to memories of the Vietnam War and the “Don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t harass, don’t pursue?? policy that the military was mandated to implement in the mid-90s. HROTCA recognizes these points of contention and strives to remind students and faculty that the military itself is not an autonomous branch of government but is subordinate to the wishes of the president, Congress, and the courts...

Author: By Charles B. Cromwell, | Title: Explaining the Uniform | 2/7/2002 | See Source »

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