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...interest in writing poetry. “Before writing haiku I wrote free verse in Romanian and was published in a Romanian magazine, and the editor suggested that I write haiku, because it was similar,” Coman says. She has since founded a haiku club in Comstantza, taught haiku poetry to middle school children, joined the World Haiku Club and the Haiku Society of America, and even appeared on Romanian national television to urge the teaching of haiku to all elementary school students. But Coman’s talents are not limited to writing haikus. She is concentrating...
...higher education at the Graduate School of Education, said that she is excited about her new position. She added that she first became interested in general education when she took a class last spring called “Curriculum and Instruction in American Higher Education,” taught by Education professor Julie A. Reuben. According to Calareso, a section of the course provided an intensive overview of the history of the College’s curriculum, from the elective system under former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, to today’s imminent Gen Ed program...
...Barker Center on Friday afternoon. Despite the dreary weather, the event attracted a diverse audience of about 30, including Harvard professors of Czech and Polish Languages and Literatures, undergraduate and graduate students, and fans of Ugresic’s works from outside of the Harvard community. Ugresic, who taught briefly at Harvard in 1992, was invited as the first guest in a series of seminars hosted by the Department of Slavic Studies. The author, who currently resides in Amsterdam, said that her extensive travels have left her with a sense of cultural “schizophrenia and split-personality...
...much of my adult life, I have studied, taught, and written about those whom my dear friend and colleague John Stauffer calls “passionate outsiders”—those despised misfits on the margins of society who happen to look or love or act differently than those at the centers of power and privilege. Perhaps I’ve been drawn to these people because I am one of them. Indeed, we share a sacred bond, one born of exclusion and yet nurtured by the desire not just to be included but to be respected equally...
...about the collapsing financial sector and the government's proposed $700 billion bailout? Like the cicada crawling up from the earth precisely 17 years after its mom lays her eggs, or the monarch butterfly fluttering a thousand miles to a particular spot, they were driven by something wired, not taught. And even more uncanny: they chose almost exactly the same words...