Word: topicalism
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Last Wednesday the Institute of Politics hosted the most ambitious panel in recent ARCO Forum history at the Kennedy School of Government. The topic was abortion, and the four panelists were leading figures on both sides of the debate. The panel was billed as a search for common ground, but despite the efforts of student organizers, the debaters failed to utter more than familiar fighting words...
...mother had died of breast cancer when I was 13, and I arrived at Harvard still uncomfortable talking or even thinking about the disease. By contrast, Navin seemed almost too comfortable discussing his own battle with cancer--too comfortable for a topic that, to me at least, was usually surrounded by silence...
...part, the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade has given a great number of speeches on the topic of debt relief, written guest columns in the Times and served on a debt-relief congressional advisory commission. This commission recently recommended cancellation of all outstanding Third World debts. Clinton, too, has endorsed a full write-off. Jubilee 2000 even draws on support from God himself, or at least His surrogate on earth, Pope John Paul II. Bono and Sachs were part of the Jubilee team that met with his Holiness last October, at which the pontiff was labeled "funky...
...shift to a lighter topic, we've seen you in rap videos and other media. What are the chances we can expect a feature film starring Stuart Scott in the near future...
...eight core classes, six have been taught by graduate students outside the topic field of the class. Three were teaching fellows called in at the last minute to accommodate an unexpectedly large class size. At the time, I appreciated being able to take the class and didn't mind so much that my tf was effectively substitute teaching, but the overall learning experience suffered as a result (and I'm sure it wasn't that much fun for the TF, either...