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...drive changed the face of TV news and sports; of complications from cancer; in New York City. Joining ABC Sports as a producer in 1960 and rising to head of the division, he introduced instant replay and slow motion, infused ABC's Olympics coverage with human drama and journalistic rigor, and made Howard Cosell and Monday Night Football national obsessions. Traditionalists were alarmed when the sports guy was named president of ABC News in 1977. But he made the No. 3 news network a competitive force for the first time, paying Hollywood salaries to newscasters like Diane Sawyer and Barbara...
Some of the Kuumba members reportedly stayed for the lecture in order to talk with Vaux afterwards. I wonder whether they paid attention during the lecture. If they had, they would have seen Vaux treat the dialect with respect, seriousness and academic rigor. One Kuumba member’s belief is that the comment was, “really detrimental to the work a lot of members of Kuumba are trying to do in erasing misperceptions about what black culture and diversity are.” On the contrary, Vaux’s lecture supports their stated goal. The quotation...
...leading university, Harvard must continue to be very protective of its name and academics. The University should move cautiously when creating and expanding existing programs into the hybrid format in order to guarantee that all these programs are held to the same intellectual rigor and high standards of current on-campus programs. Fortunately, accompanying this recent change, the University has indicated its intention to move cautiously when expanding distance learning...
Discipline is high up on the president’s agenda as well. One of the most contested changes that Zhang instituted in1992 was a 20-day military training stint, mandatory for all first-year students and designed to instill in them the rigor and perseverance Zhang believed they needed for an indispensable filmmaking enterprise. In the second year, students are dispatched to farms and factories throughout the country for a “rural experience...
While the faculty is no longer divided along ideological lines, questions about relationships with the practice of law, internationalization and the rigor of HLS’ curriculum remain...