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...group of students from Lisa Sievert's international affairs class organized a model U.N. where they debate the practical implications of such abstract concepts as sovereignty and self-determination in the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the Iraq War. Sievert says many of the insights they're gathering extracurricularly while researching mock resolutions inform the class discussions, adding intellectual spice to the sessions she flavors with student-produced Power Point presentations and documentary screenings, as well as reading assignments from foreign affairs journals and memoirs of genocide survivors. Barrett required students to attend an on-campus debate on the Arab-Israeli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building a New Student in Michigan | 12/12/2006 | See Source »

...unnewsworthy that most papers prefer to do without him entirely. Of the handful of such men regularly kept at work in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco and Detroit, only five get a daily airing. And four of these-Bart of the Times, Kaselow of the Tribune, Charles Sievert of the World-Telegram and Jack O'Dwyer of the Journal-American-appear in New York City,*where the Madison Avenue column was born only 30 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Navel-Gazing in Wasteland | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Speakers lined up by Dr. Goebbels to campaign for "My Leader" this week: Col. Oscar von Hindenburg; the Graf Zeppelin's Dr. Hugo Eckener; Wilhelm II's Nazi son Prince August ("Auwi") Wilhelm; German Olympic Games Heroes Hans Sievert (world's decathlon record holder) and Otto Peltzer (sprinter) ; Munitioneer Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. For the first time newsorgans announced that Adolf Hitler will speak not to the German people but to "his people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: My Leader | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

Lightng will be under the management of Jonel Jorgulesco, who will also have charge of scenic effects and costume designing. Mr. Jorgulesco has been studying in Germany under Sievert and Reinbardt. Diction, phonetics and special training in Shakespeare will be in the care of Misses Lenore Chippendale and Agnes Elliott Scott. Miss Lilla Wyman will give instruction in ballet and pantomime, and Eric Kalphurst in sight-reading and make-up. Mr. Will Ghere is to be dean of the play-producing department...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHANCE TO STUDY DRAMA GIVEN TO HARVARD MEN | 11/25/1925 | See Source »

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