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...portraying humanity, so directly studying different forms of portrayals is as, if not more, important than learning the skills needed to analyze them.Such a scheme will not be hard to implement; in fact, it already exists at the College. For all its faults, the current Core Curriculum casts a sharp and sensible distinction between the Literature and Arts A and B categories. Literature and Arts A courses are concerned with the analysis of literary texts, while Literature and Arts B courses examine non-literary forms of art. The best way to instruct undergraduates in literature and the arts is simply...
...July the company acquired Shell Solar's crystalline-silicon solar business, which makes solar-grade silicon, wafers, cells and modules in California, Washington and Germany. This year revenues should increase 43%, to $630 million, making it the second largest integrated solar company in the world, after Sharp. For Asbeck, there's no question about which direction a solar company should go in: "You have to be fully integrated, or you don't have control...
...separation of extracurriculars and academics enables them to pack more diverse interests into their lives. A Literature concentrator does not need to see a connection between her classes and her a cappella group in order to have a complete extracurricular life.Where academic-extracurricular links exist, Harvard students are sharp enough to see and appreciate them. Where they do not, there is little purpose in inventing them or forcing students to find additional “more relevant” activities. Activities are meant to compliment our education, but that does not always mean that they can be neatly correlated...
...laboratory where Wang worked, spoke of him as “an exceptionally gifted young scientist.” “In fact,” she noted, “his thesis proposal just got approved two weeks ago.” After a song by C-Sharp, Harvard’s Asian a capella group, two of his friends related memories of Wang. Yiming Wang ’08 met the biochemical sciences concentrator for the first time freshman year. The two became roommates and lab partners sophomore year. He described Wang...
...Until a couple of years ago monkeys used to climb the PTI building and try to raid its offices. One of my predecessors glued shut the windows in our office to keep the marauding animals out. The arrival of the langur took things to another level. With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swot an errant ape from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary to humans - not just a smaller rhesus monkey. Khan says business is good, despite the recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs twelve langurs, including two that...