Word: realms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maybe the whole problem is the need to commit. And so I propose the following for renewed, serious consideration: non-binding course pre-registration. If Harvard is unwilling to join the realm of the logically-scheduled semester schools, it can at least do us this favor...
None of this is new; recent history is rife with bloody battles waged over governmental standard-setting in the realm of publicly funded art. Staid Cincinnati erupted over Robert Mapplethorpe?s photographs of nude men and children. Then there was Andres Serrano (a graduate, incidentally, of the Brooklyn Museum art school) and his "Piss Christ." And who could forget the chocolate-smeared Karen Finley? The terms of the debate are familiar: Does government funding place ultimate discretionary power in the hands of public officials, or does the First Amendment guarantee freedom of expression for all artists, in all venues? Proponents...
...randomization fight rest. We must acknowledge that our worst nightmares have not come true--many of the Houses have retained elements of their old cultures, and the fabric of undergraduate life has not frayed into disarray. Extracurricular groups have picked up much of the slack in the realm of community formation, and while Harvard College is certainly not the same as it was pre-randomization, we cannot honestly contend that it has been measurably harmed...
...clear across the Pacific Ocean, the significance of the Harvard name can be taken out of proportion. "If you went to Harvard, or graduated from there, you are automatically elevated to some sort of 'elite' realm," says Misasha C. Suzuki '99, a Japanese citizen who works for JP Morgan in Tokyo. "Harvard is the key to basically opening up whatever you want in Japan...
...encounter a gaggle of warm, goofy reptilian friends to whom they are just as strange as the monsters are to them. Besides fantasy and rich, hand-painted scenery, this animated series offers an encouraging message--don't be afraid of new situations--to a young audience exploring its own realm of freakish curiosities...