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...showed up at the Winthrop Street offices of Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) because he’d heard that they offered robust benefits. Three months later, Mauger got hired...
...China can get around the firewalls safely. Whether to publicize these mechanisms is always a difficult decision – within a few days, usually the holes they exploit are closed off and we’re back to the drawing board – but if more robust solutions of this sort can be found we might be able to sidestep the politics altogether.Harvard is an institution that idolizes free speech, in a country that holds these values sacrosanct. It behooves us to cast a wide net in searching out violations of these principles. Our own firewall should perhaps...
...setup, where students will have to take three courses in the two categories outside of their concentration, will be complemented by effort on behalf of departments to make some of their content-heavy courses more accessible to those outside of the concentration. Second, the committee also envisions a robust array of “Courses in General Education”—yearlong portal courses that would cover a swath of subject matter in an interdisciplinary way.Both of these proposals stand to make Harvard students better educated. Though students can still get away with fulfilling their...
...secure Summers’ promise that new Allston buildings would be constructed with green principles in mind. HGCI has also sponsored art contests, with large prizes, that are focused on imagining what sustainability would look like on campus. The College’s Resource Efficiency Program (REP), with a robust conservation agenda all on its own, joined HGCI in 2004 to award Houses a Green Cup based on conservation. Whether student- or faculty-run, groups like the EAC, HGCI and REP deserve a heap of thanks for helping Harvard to win its Green Power award. However, all of these environmental...
...back, like some labyrinthine Alain Resnais epic, to the glory days of foreign-language films--the '50s and '60s. Back then Hollywood was Doris Day and Jerry Lewis on the low side, Tennessee Williams and biblical spectacles on high. Meanwhile, artists in other countries were leading film to a robust maturity: Ingmar Bergman in Sweden, Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in France, Akira Kurosawa in Japan, Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni in Italy, Luis Bunuel in Spain. As each director found a constituency, U.S. distributors would pick up his earlier films, as well as other movies from the same...