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...hear. "They packed me away because I said I would run for the presidency again," he says, looking as trim as the lieutenant colonel of Soviet missile forces he once was. "They assigned me to a room with six brutes, drunk, dirty, unkempt," he says. "In a week I taught them to behave and wash their socks." Then he turns serious. "In these 15 years, the Belarusian people have acquired a national identity and the desire for an independent country of their own. First it was just a minority, then this feeling took over the majority," he says. "The same...
...developed in Berlin “fascinating.” The site, The Virtual Laboratory, displays handwritten letters, lab notebooks, textbooks, and other historical documents and images related to the experimental life sciences.Schmidgen’s students also say they appreciate the cultural nuances of attending a course taught by a foreign professor. They say their professor’s experience with labs and institutes in Berlin enhances the course, which includes an examination of the architectural designs of Berlin labs.Schmidgen, Ok says, displays a firsthand familiarity with the way labs and institutes are organized in Berlin...
Shelby, who taught the popular sophomore course Social Studies 10 last year, knows how to talk philosophy without putting his audience to sleep. Shelby’s writing style, although very methodical in its presentation and analysis of previous calls for African-American unity, has a compelling, discursive tone that compels readers to eagerly follow his argument over the course of 256 pages...
...next academic year, two new courses at the University of Kansas, both taught by professors with doctorates from Harvard, will evaluate the fiercely contested issue of intelligent design and its place in science classrooms. The planned courses have incited resistance, largely due to the professors’ use of the term “mythology” in reference to intelligent design. Kansas has been at the center of the debate over intelligent design, the theory that natural selection cannot account for all of life’s evolution and that an “intelligent designer” must...
Having taken only one art history course while at Harvard, Schuker said that interdisciplinary classes taught by Porter Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Eric Rentschler and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand have “inspired her to study art in times of heightened politics...