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...Behind these sentiments lurks the endemic self-loathing that subtly defines many Harvard students’ view of their own success in the college admissions cockfight. We are selfish when it comes to rooming and selfless on the subject of transfer admissions because we’re embarrassed to be among higher education’s Elect, the less-than-ten percent of the applicant pool that did the impossible and got into Harvard...
...amount of detail. Their life-like, agile representations of people—which look as though they could jump back to life at a moment’s notice—sets the figurines apart from the static nature of most statues.The historical context of these porcelains was the subject of a day-long symposium, “Tables of Content,” and a dance and music performance that took place in the Sackler and Fogg Musuems this past Saturday. “I wanted to highlight this aspect of porcelain that people are not familiar with...
...music educator and just as a person, I loved all kinds of music but really jazz I found an affinity with,” he says. Jazz was hardly present at Harvard when Everett arrived. He says that there were no jazz activities, and jazz was not considered a subject suitable to academic study. “It was a while before it was really academically acceptable,” Everett says.Everett did not begin teaching a course on jazz until the mid- to late-1970s; in the meantime, he assembled a group of students already interested in jazz...
...profession, scrutinizing journalism in light of Hogue’s actions: “While it is facile to equate journalism with lying, it is also true that both actions share in common an unpleasantly instrumental approach to people and language that diminishes the common store of trust. The subject has no power to alter a reporter’s approach to his or her subject, or to take back a single word that they said.” Told in Samuels’s clean and direct style, “The Runner” manages to find reflected...
...question-and-answer session following a screening, director Tom McCarthy said, “I’d rather you talk about it. I don’t want to explain the movie or tie things up too neatly.” This response reflects the subjective nature of the film, in particular its discussion of illegal immigration and deportation in post-9/11 America. McCarthy, however, chooses to present these issues through the personal stories of people who would never have met had it not been for unlikely circumstances. “The Visitor” charts the story...