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...real fun begins: the two leaders will lock themselves in a room with a clutch of top officials to talk about government policy for four or five hours. The Sunday meeting at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country mansion north of London, will be the third such bilateral seminar, following one at the White House, when Blair visited in February, and the inaugural 12-hr. "wonkathon" at Chequers in November, when Hillary Clinton sat in for her husband...
...wasn't always so. It used to be a wonderful, well-defined, significant place where powerful Radcliffe women lived and studied, an actual and beautiful place where Harvard students could attend dinner, partake of a seminar, watch parades and athletic events, or have great coffee and conversation in an impressive Radcliffe living room...
...suppressing devotions to a deity known as Dorje Shugden. The pickets thus introduced a startled public to a long-simmering drama featuring charges and countercharges of everything from sacrilege to bullying to murder, most of it allegedly done by holy men. The shocking litany amounts to a regular seminar in what Helen Tworkov, editor of the American Buddhist journal Tricycle, wearily terms "the shadow side of Tibet...
...Carnegie Foundation report's furtherrecommendations include the expansion ofinquiry-based learning for first-years. The reportlauds a Duke University program, which usesbig-name faculty in small discussiongroups--somewhat like the Freshman Seminar programat Harvard...
...possible explanation for Harvard's apparent insensitivity to musi- cians' need is surprisingly simple: it justcomes with the territory. "Harvard made aconscious choice decades ago not to do what Yalehas done," said Allston Burr Senior Tutor ofKirkland House and music seminar instructor Dr.Mark Risinger. That is, the college chose not toestablish a school of music. With Juilliard,Curtis, Peabody and the New England Conservatoryin relatively close proximity, Risinger explained,there was no need for Harvard to divert itsfaculty and finances from academics. "We don'thave the same sort of obligation to maximizeperformance opportunity that a conservatory wouldhave." "My primary concern...