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...that will provide relevant context for a student’s life outside these gates while remaining anchored to the liberal arts.It does so by featuring broad and interdisciplinary courses that challenge students to put their education in context. For instance, the classics of Western humanities will still be taught, but with an eye towards why certain works have been so influential and how they remain relevant today. Science classes will continue to be required, but the theory they present will be oriented towards understanding our increasingly technical society. This paradigm draws broadly on Harvard’s most successful...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: At Last, a Guiding Philosophy | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...that wink-that is, the Fox gestalt of insouciance, attitude, and even playfulness-has had a bigger effect on the news media than any Bill O'Reilly rant. Fox taught TV news that voice, provocation and fun are not things to be afraid of. And for better or worse, probably every TV news program outside of PBS has been Foxified by now. The explosive graphics on your newscast: that's Fox. The "freeSpeech" opinion segments on the new CBS Evening News: that's Fox, too. Anderson Cooper yelling at a FEMA official or crusading in Africa: that's Fox. Keith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Hath Fox Wrought? | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...Iranian Nobel laureate and human rights defender, I didn't think twice. That was before the government banned her NGO, a clear sign they were not interested in putting up with her anymore. Now when she calls, I babble about my dogs, anxious to hang up. She's taught me a lot about what to do if I ever end up in prison, but I'd like to avoid putting that knowledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paranoid in Tehran | 10/6/2006 | See Source »

...Back in the dinosaur times when I was in school…I took a playwriting class that Tony Kubiak taught, and that was where I started ‘Good Will Hunting,’” Damon continues. “ I loved it there; I have a lot, a lot of memories...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Damon Returns With 'The Departed' | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

...cusp of treating education as a significant topic at colleges and universities because something that includes 50 million students, Hundreds of thousands of employees, and billions and billions of dollars, is too important to be left off the academic agenda much longer,” Peterson said. Peterson previously taught a Gov junior seminar on education, but he said the demand for the course was always greater than the number of available spots. “The more Harvard kids that we can get involved in education, the better this country will be,” said Lagemann...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Need No Education'? New Classes Counter | 10/5/2006 | See Source »

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