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...China, who said that the international community would be mistaken to think that the country’s communist government was moving towards a more democratic society. “On the surface, the Chinese Communist government has allowed some concessions toward democracy,” Szeto said, speaking in Chinese. “In reality, that’s not the case.” During a period for questions after the presentation, Wei objected to Szeto’s pessimism, suggesting that he was not taking a nuanced view of the situation facing the Chinese government...
...African-American writers of the 1960’s were political,” Leader-Picone says. “And he is not unique in that.”And yet, despite Whitehead’s stature, in the last ten years he has come to speak at Harvard only once, as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s “Black Writers Reading” series in 2002. Though his work is taught on campus—Professor Henry Louis Gates’s English 276x, a graduate seminar on the African American Literary...
...work and discussing the process behind writing a novel. According to Holinger, “Writing a novel is a huge enterprise. Everyone does it differently, and so we discuss process in just about every class.”In addition, Holinger also invites a novelist to speak to his students every semester. For the past several years, this visitor has been a former student of the class.THE STORIES BEHIND THE STUDENTSOne of the defining characteristics of the Extension School courses is the great diversity of the students who take them. Although most of the creative writing courses are capped...
...That’s French,” she explains. “I just assumed that since you were going to… and all, in the fall, that you’d…”“Yeah, I don’t speak French,” I say, and we both laugh for just under a second.“I don’t either, really. I’ve just been taking a course to keep myself in shape.”“In shape...
...service that once defined its graduates. If the university truly believes Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell is “deeply wrong,” then it is free to lobby Congress and the president. It is free to encourage its professors to speak out. It is even free to reject all federal funding in the name of a higher principle...