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...Societies of the World is just another name for Foreign Cultures, and that’s not our approach at all,” Harris said. While courses in Foreign Cultures focus on a single region, the Societies of the World category will include a number of courses that span borders, according to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Stephanie H. Kenen. Course development in the Societies of the World category has been slow: of the seven classes approved so far, only one is not a refitted course for the new curriculum. But Harris said that because the Societies...
...This kind of Hope, in time will span across oceans to other historically marginalized and subjugated minorities. Already in Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves, poor little boys on crutches, dismembered by wars of intolerance, are wobbling across the soccer field wearing “Yes, We Can!” t-shirts...
...seeing an escalation of violence even as the rest of the country contends with a series of terror bombings over the last few weeks. On Thursday, a series of co-ordinated bomb blasts in the Indian state of Assam - nine of them detonated in four cities in the span of 15 minutes - killed at 61 people and injured at least 300. The question now is whether the perpetrators of the attacks were regional separatists or a wider network of radical jihadists...
Penguin Group USA seems to be leading the financial field when it comes to big bucks and celebrity authors. Within a span of 48 hours, Penguin imprints scooped up three of the hottest gets, shelling out millions in advances. Andrew Ross Sorkin will write a behind-the-scenes account of the Wall Street crisis, Too Big to Fail, for Viking, while his New York Times colleague Joe Nocera, along with Vanity Fair contributing editor Bethany McLean, will do a long-term take on the crisis for Portfolio, with their advance rumored to be as much as $1.6 million. Roger Lowenstein...
...testament to his vision. However, it is at once obvious that “The Hyacinth Macaw” isn’t a light play. Instead, it is essentially about the nature of everything and wants to say it all in a mere two-hour time span. While the production hardly accomplished that, in retrospect it succeeded in another aspect—crafting a new appreciation for silence in that elusive search for meaning...