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...First Employment Contract" law the centerpiece of his effort to cut unemployment among 25-year-olds-and-less from its dismal rate of 22% - and as much as twice that much in the troubled cit?s of the "banlieues," the outlying suburbs (where many descendants of North African and sub-Saharan immigrants live) which exploded in violence last fall...
...next generation of watercolorists further redefined the bounds of the sub-genre. As Europeans like Kandinsky, Miró, and Klee experimented with abstract watercolor composition, American artists were “rediscovering and searching for their roots in the early watercolorists,” said Stebbins. Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Demuth and John Marin—all early experimenters with realism, abstraction and modernism—took on the yoke previously worn by Sargent and Homer...
...While comix travelogues have become a burgeoning sub-genre, Jessica Abel's La Perdida goes one better. It processes the experiences of the foreign traveler into a focused examination of the relationship between foreignness and being "native," particularly the nature of "Americanness." Even its liberal use of Mexican colloquialisms in the original Spanish puts the book at the edge of today's controversy over the purity of English. La Perdida includes a glossary for all the Spanish at the end, except strangely, a translation of the title. My crude Google-based research roughly translates it as "The Lost...
...week, Kirby voiced his support for the Faculty and Faculty Council to push forward with the curricular review this spring. He called the curricular review “our highest priority,” warning that Harvard is otherwise at risk of becoming a great research university with merely sub-par undergraduate teaching. “Only when our College and University equally can claim to be second to none can we begin to feel satisfied,” wrote Kirby.Kirby’s intuitions are correct. The call to put the curricular review on hold until...
Even for the hundreds upon hundreds of courses available to Harvard undergraduates, it is no secret that many Harvard students are not satisfied with the many educational offerings—and rightfully so. And yawning gaps in particular sub-areas (like Continental philosophy) are only part of the problem. At the department level, the slate of courses offered reflects faculty interests in particular areas instead of a coherent vision of what a complete undergraduate education in a particular concentration ought to cover. This is not to say that departments hastily organize their undergraduate requirements; it is clear that concentration requirements...