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...opposed to the more traditional indoctrination into it, should still be a central aspect of general education. A truly educated person of the modern world, in other words, must be prepared to think seriously about the possibilities for leading a life and ought to be challenged to take a stand on their own way of living. To the extent that our system of general education has lost sight of this goal, it has lost sight of its most fundamental purpose...
...about the desire in many institutions of higher learning to overcome instances of past discrimination in academia and the professional world by encouraging students to explore fields outside of those prescribed previously by gender, ethnicity, or race. But Lewis said that the hope of achieving this goal may sometimes stand at odds with attempts to respect and support the desired path of each individual student. “There is a very fine line between putting pressure on an individual student to be a servant of some statistic that you hope will change over time and helping students figure...
Harvard policemen stand sentry between the Barker Center and Lamont Libary, while a man wheels potted plants across the street. And inside Barker, the humanities building in which Faust is scheduled to meet the press around 4 p.m., technicians are setting up the stage for a news conference in the ornate Thompson Room. Looming over a snazzy red background that says "Harvard University" over and over is the sage, bronze head of John Harvard...
...Welcome to the "Israeli-Palestinian comedy tour." Organized by Hanania and American-Israeli comedian Charlie Waraday, the January tour took three Jewish and one Arab stand-up comedians to Tel Aviv and three Jerusalem venues, one of them a synagogue. They never made it into the Palestinian territories; two of the comics hold Israeli passports and are banned from travel there. The tour's aim, says Hanania, was to show that "If we can laugh together, we can live together...
...Jews and Arabs may battle over land and religion, but according to these stand-up comics, they share the same kind of self-deprecating humor. In a serious vein, Campbell says, "Downtrodden ethnic groups have a history of humor, and it seems to come out of that tragic experience. Certainly, the Palestinians have lots to talk about in that respect - as do the Jews." Freeman adds with a grin, "Well, Jews have self-deprecating humor and Arab-deprecating humor...