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...notes will be included in holiday cards to donors and other individuals important to the DEAS this year. The suggested note for Ballmer, a former Crimson executive, said “Here’s to closing out the Challenge Fund in the new year!”, presumably referring to 2005. Ballmer is not named as a donor on the Challenge Fund website, which offers a list of contributors. But the site does list an anonymous donor who contributed $15 million in 2002 to create 10 professorships and 10 Innovation Funds at the DEAS. It?...
...France in May 1968 Reports on the riots in France [Nov. 14] often refer to the disturbances that took place in that country in May 1968. We said then that the revolt was the result of students and workers feeling increasingly frustrated by President Charles de Gaulle's government, "on which normal public and political pressures had almost no effect." Here is an excerpt from TIME's coverage of those events...
...that is to invite them to see the movie,” he says.Gyllenhaal illustrates the point with an anecdote, recalled from a film festival press conference: “A journalist stood up and apologized, ‘For the past few weeks, I’ve referred to it as a gay cowboy movie. I’ll never refer to it [that way] again.’”A LOVE STORY, WITH A TWISTIt’s important to note that the heart of “Brokeback Mountain” is not quite...
...Catholics or as atheists. And I think it is very unlikely that we’ll raise our children as atheists,” she says. ‘MISSIONARY DATING’ Despite these complications, some students are willing to pursue interfaith relationships. Some Christian students jokingly refer to interfaith relationships as “missionary dating,” pointing out that conversion might be a consequence of the relationship. Skoda says the phrase negatively connotes one person setting out in a relationship in order to convert the other person, and she says she thinks that this happens...
...Kansas, both taught by professors with doctorates from Harvard, will evaluate the fiercely contested issue of intelligent design and its place in science classrooms. The planned courses have incited resistance, largely due to the professors’ use of the term “mythology” in reference to intelligent design. Kansas has been at the center of the debate over intelligent design, the theory that natural selection cannot account for all of life’s evolution and that an “intelligent designer” must have guided the process. The Kansas Education Board recently voted...