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...Possibly creating a program for Harvard undergraduates to earn teacher certification while pursuing their undergraduate degrees. "We're discussing this plan with (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education) Sidney Verba ('53) and other members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," says Ursula E. Wagener, Ed School assistant dean for academic and student services. "It's only in the idea stage now, but we're committed to the concept behind it--to get bright people into teaching...
...persisted: trying very hard to please her father, and doing star turns before she, and others, felt she had earned them. In her late teens she enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study photojournalism, dashing up to New York to become, without visible effort, a top model. Director Sidney Lumet gave her the small but P highly important role of the lesbian Lakey in his film of Mary McCarthy's novel The T Group. Playing at moviemak-sing, the blond 19-year-old would waft on set without "sleep after a night on the town, and further outrage...
...council this fall re-opened discussions on its sexual harassment policy and, most recently, has been weighing a proposal by Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Sidney Verba '53 to establish a comprehensive harassment policy that includes a provision for a central office to handle complaints Initial support for the proposal appeared strong, but a recent straw vote taken at a meeting of the council's steering committee showed a majority in opposition to the creation of such an office...
...perceptive article last fall in the New Republic, Sidney Blumenthal concluded that the press and Reagan see truth differently. To the press, "collections of facts add up to the truth, particularly if the facts are balanced." Reagan, Blumenthal believes, gets his truth from his ideology; to him facts are means, "parables tailored to have a moral...
Michael puts a sliding scale of value on distance. Director Sidney Lumet, with whom Jackson was staying when he starred in The Wiz, recalls that his teenage daughters once had some friends over and one asked Michael to sing. "O.K.," Michael said affably. "But cover your eyes." "I think he was embarrassed by the closeness of the situation," Lumet says, "but his desire not to be rude or hurt...