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...proposal’s reliance on departmental courses is a significant departure from the current system, which often draws sharp distinctions between general education and departmental courses...
...meets every other week to discuss ways to encourage the College to purchase green power. Rogers said Gross will give the group $10,000 if they are able to raise $5,000 on their own. Next year, he will donate $5,000 next if students raise $10,000. Leith Sharp, director of the Harvard Green Campus Initiative, said the group plans to build on the momentum created by the award and past initiatives. “Renewable energy will have a larger and larger role in assisting in our efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” Sharp said...
...places for only 50 more. But teaching pregnant women about the need for good nutrition while carrying, and giving those with low viral counts antiretroviral drugs to make them healthier have produced encouraging results: only 8 of the 118 children born so far have tested HIV-positive, a sharp drop from the standard...
...Parsons, the monumental Harvard sociologist who taught at the University from 1927 to 1973. Moore “just did not see eye to eye with Parsons on intellectual matters. I don’t think they got along very well,” Walder said. Moore was reclusive, sharp, and demanding in the classroom. According to Skocpol, students had to write a five-page essay to gain admission to his graduate school class. She described him as a “very old-fashioned, rigorous professor, but very inspiring.” Skocpol recalled that Moore conducted class...
...painting, not play, I thought. But confronting the actual My Little Pony toy—the one reintroduced in 2003, after a hibernation which started at the end of my childhood—presented me with a creepy Olsen-twinsesque beast. That oversized head, doe, drugged-out eyes, and sharp physique was certainly not the pony that I galloped around my bedroom mountains.When the ’80s toy revolution began a year or two ago, I was elated. Finally, proof that it wasn’t only my own Peter-Pan-complexed self that believed these playthings were...