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...shaking the hands of politicians, dignitaries and world leaders, but it’s not going to teach me anything about the real lives of billions of people. Students are willing to give a figure at the JFK Forum an hour of undivided attention, but how many of them spare a couple of minutes to consider illiterate people living on under $2 a day, or even Harvard janitors and dining hall workers? We can pretend that the small elite around Harvard is the whole world, but we’d just be wasting four years of our lives.Once we realize...
...performances. For One Year Celebration, Huyghe invited several artists and writers to invent new holidays, and the resulting posters proclaim such whimsical additions to the calendar as Celebrate the Shoelace day (March 21) and &the Creation of the Ampersand day (July 6). Yet discussing his work in the chic, spare Paris apartment cum think space he shares with graphic designer Francesca Grassi, Huyghe is all seriousness. In explaining that clever calendar, he launches into a discussion of what he calls "time protocols," raising questions about what an exhibition is ("Why should it last 11/2 months - why not 10 years...
...mission as if others didn't deserve a say, as if the chance of success for me was more important than the certainty of fatherhood for my kids. I didn't weigh the risk to them until I lay bleeding in the bed of a humvee, too late to spare them the fright...
Basile said that spare rooms should be made available for students who wish to move. “I wake up at 7 a.m. to compose letters to ask to change rooms,” he said...
...more fit for the Harvard environment than Larry.Potential concentrators should try out a class to see how they like the concentration and its department—and then revel in the fact that everything from computer science to religion courses can fulfill requirements. And if you have electives to spare, it’s worth browsing the departmental classes. They are small, well-taught, and intellectually engaging—if you don’t mind a lot of reading and long discussions around a small table. And don’t worry—even if it puts...