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...real-world” applicability is strong. Yet English—and the other humanities—are valuable courses of study, along with more “practical” majors like economics or chemistry, but only if departments are willing to develop their curriculum to suit the times. Harvard’s new English program allows for much greater flexibility of study and can incorporate a wider variety of interests.English is no longer a field whose scope can be limited to Great Britain and North America. Literature written in English is truly a transnational corpus, as migration...
...guard Andrew Pusar. “He wanted to be a part of it and continue to play basketball. Erik is great person in locker room and on the court.”After training and playing this winter with the JV team, Groszyk was asked by Amaker to suit up with the Varsity. Traditionally, the JV and Varsity teams have been separated.“We’ve always wanted the JV program to be a part of everything with the varsity team,” Amaker said. “We want that to be available...
...been among the poorest nations in Europe for centuries, and a smoky haze choked Reykjavik, thanks to the coal inhabitants burned during the interminable winters. In the 1930s, Icelandic engineers successfully diverted underground water to heat an elementary school, and the rest of the capital slowly followed suit. When the global oil crisis hit in the 1970s, efforts to turn this local resource into electricity - by drilling holes into underground heat pockets and reservoirs to release pressurized steam that then runs turbines - moved into high gear. Today, if it's not raining or snowing (or both), views from Reykjavik...
...Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the museum has opened a 25,000-sq.-ft. branch in downtown New York, focusing on that city's contribution to the music world. Admission is a steep $22, but the money buys you a look at David Byrne's Stop Making Sense suit, letters between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when they were teenagers, and a urinal from CBGBs, the legendary Lower East Side punk-rock club, which closed in 2006. 76 Mercer Street, New York City...
...impeccable classicist when it comes to baseball. And that just about does it for me. I'd add the bracing moment of Bush with the bullhorn in the ruins of the World Trade Center, but that was neutered in my memory by his ridiculous, preening appearance in a flight suit on the deck of the aircraft carrier beneath the "Mission Accomplished" sign. The flight-suit image is one of the two defining moments of the Bush failure. The other is the photo of Bush staring out the window of Air Force One, helplessly viewing the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina...