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...concentrated” should a Harvard College education be? How do our current structures—departments, concentrations and calendars—serve our educational mission? How can we prepare our students to be citizens, not just of this or other countries, but of the world? These are the simplest, and therefore most difficult questions that we have before...
Together, based on a true story, is Chen's sunniest, ostensibly simplest film. Cheng (Liu Peiqi), a poor man from the provinces, takes his son Xiaochun (Tang Yun), 13, a violin prodigy, to Beijing in hopes of promoting the boy's career. He's gifted, no doubt, but in big-city music competitions, a bribe decides the winner. Nevertheless, Xiaochun gets a good teacher--Jiang (Wang Zhiwen), a sympathetic bohemian with a Dickens-novel quota of pet cats--and befriends an effervescent girl-on-the-make named Lili (Chen Hong, who offscreen is Chen's wife...
...highlight the need for reform, staff members on the House Education and Workforce Committee (HEWC) are trawling college campuses for horror stories of students from elite schools who can't name the President or solve the simplest math problems. Among the examples they have unearthed is a letter from a former AT&T manager, charging that an electrical-engineering major from Johns Hopkins hired by the company was "totally unprepared. He came to me asking what the symbols were on one of the blueprints. I thought he was kidding, but found he was serious." Committee members also point...
...more critical juncture. Many women were stunned last year when the famous Women's Health Initiative discovered that pills providing a combination of estrogen and progestin do not protect the hearts of postmenopausal women. (Tests on estrogen alone are still under way.) Suddenly, what had seemed to be the simplest, most elegant solution to the aging female heart--replacing the hormones a woman makes before menopause--had vanished...
What had changed? What had brought Bush into the get-Iraq-now camp? The most important factor was also the simplest. By the fall of 2001, Bush and other senior policymakers in Washington were scared out of their wits. On Oct. 4 came the first anthrax attacks on New York City and Washington. Again, no evidence was found linking Saddam to the attacks. But Saddam had once admitted developing anthrax weapons to U.N. inspectors, and now anthrax was being used to kill Americans. Even if a link to Baghdad could not be proved, this was enough to stiffen the spines...