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...that are not positive,” said Bouquet. During the question-and-answer session, one audience member said the film had affected how he approached hip-hop music. “I’ll change the way I think about things, and I’ll teach that to my kids,” he said. —Staff writer David Jiang can be reached at djiang@fas.harvard.edu...
...school is already preemptively dismissing charges that it is embracing purely practical knowledge. "We do not propose that we teach the headlines," said a report published on Feb. 7 by the curriculum committee, comprising professors, students and a dean. "Only that the headlines, along with much else in our students' lives, are among the things that a liberal education can help students make better sense...
...glue, he says, holding up a pot of evil-smelling green paste. "No one knows my recipe for making a glue that stays perfectly flat when it dries, without rippling the tissue paper," he says. Business is so good these days that Agha has had to teach his wives how to make kites. He proudly calls one of them "the second best kite maker in Kabul," although he insists that she will never be as good as he is. "I have 45 years' experience. She'll never be able to catch up." His 6-year-old daughter may have...
...make them drums, goat-skinned drums,” he recalls. It was during this time that Gsann realized the potential music had to turn around the Tanzanian youth culture. He had noticed that the public education system, an antiquated remnant of British imperialism, failed to teach children about African cultural achievement. Gsann credits this educational deficit—coupled with the lack of prominent domestic musicians—with leading Tanzanian youth to listen to American music, particularly violent American rap.Gsann and his brother formed X Plastaz so that Tanzanian youths would have access to hip hop that...
...went to Catholic school,” Barrett said. “They teach you that we’re each born with talents. I thought and prayed about this a lot, and I feel that joining the Marines is my calling...