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...show—since 1997. Seegars said that Lauer’s experiences interviewing scores of different people and traveling the world for the Today Show’s segment “Where in the World is Matt Lauer?” will allow the television personality to speak to seniors about the world outside the Harvard bubble. Yet the choice of a television news personality for the June 3 student-focused celebration left some seniors less than thrilled. “I’m sure he will be more entertaining than Ben Bernanke, but I was hoping...
...raises the most important discussion being had in the culture today.” Waters, an editor at the HUP, said that the panel made certain concepts in the humanities more accessible. “The barriers between the humanities break down when you listen to these two guys speak,” he said. At the end of the discussion, Taylor said, “I felt that the event was important in showing the complexity of civilization and the sacred and secular worlds. In it, one is not replacing the other, but there is an interweaving...
...Fowler-Finn’s early departure from the district. The application process closed in late February. From a pool of over 30 applicants, the school committee then selected semi-finalists, who were interviewed in a closed process. The finalists were publicly announced last week.Nash, the first candidate to speak, is currently one of the academic superintendents for Boston Public Schools. She noted that it is essential for central administration and individual schools to work together. “Shared decision-making is the cornerstone of the schoolhouse,” she said.On two occasions Nash said that...
...Boston College abruptly rescinded two student groups' invitation to former Weather Underground member William Ayers to speak on campus. The spokesman for BC said he had no clue Ayers was due to speak until the Boston Herald told him so—and shortly thereafter, the event was canceled. But indefatigable student organizers are trying to get the founding member of the violent, radical left organization to speak off-campus...
Assaf, the NGO representative, acknowledges that there are "corrupt elements" and for-profit associations masquerading as civic groups but says that clamping down on the majority because of a minority is unfair. The security situation is a convenient excuse for ulterior motives. "We speak of a new democratic Iraq that has put the ways of the old regime behind it, but at the same time there are things that make you think that the government wants to try and control NGOs," he says...