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...irony given that theirs is music fit for a drug-filled dance club. On “Ta-Dah,” though, the dichotomy is even stronger. It’s not just the humor that’s dark; now it’s the subject matter. The moment you realize that the pumping dance track “She’s My Man” is about the Bush administration’s mishandling of Hurricane Katrina, you’ll probably step on your date’s foot. In almost every song, the lyrics...
...such courses, there’s a temptation to intellectualize the subject of race to the point at which it becomes completely divorced from both historical and present context. Some students may feel that the best policy is to look at the subject of race from a purely historical and intellectual standpoint—perhaps with a genuine wish to divest racial thinking of its power—while ignoring the very real and very present societal and emotional consequences of the subject at hand. However, this is often the very thought process that contributes to the type of barefaced...
That course’s enrollment fell from 335 last fall to 293 this September, but the subject matter, according to Charbonneau, enjoys wide appeal. “That question of whether of not the stars of the night sky have solar systems and life on those planets extends beyond astronomers. It’s a question everyone has asked at some point or another,” he said...
...less leverage to extract cash. A far more efficient operation would forgo the donations of the small number of disappointed alumni whose children don’t get in on their own merits, and allow all those interested to bid for a small number of spots in the class, subject to a few minimal academic criteria. After all, as Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 is fond of repeating, every student at Harvard can do the work. The benefits of the direct approach are twofold. First of all, it should make more money...
...working couples were dual-income couples. Between 1980 and 2003 the number of working couples grew by almost eight million, or 31 percent. Economics Chair James H. Stock is largely responsible for recruiting the department’s professors. He agreed that coordinating spouses comes up as a subject in virtually every hire. “It is a statement about more women being candidates for junior and senior faculty appointments than they were several years ago,” he said. Lecturer on Government Rachel M. McCleary, who is married to Warburg Professor of Economics Robert J. Barro, said...