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...like small departments with tiny, discussion-based seminars? Or do you like to be that one student who always speaks up during large auditorium lectures? While all concentrations will have required tutorials—smaller, narrow-topic classes that can end up being one-on-one by the time you are a senior—tutorials in larger concentrations take more of a lecture-and-section format. You won’t find much in the way of small seminars in government or economics (especially with Harvard’s budget cutting...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Getting Through the Stress of Choosing Your Concentration | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...from double concentrating and working out a unique concentration. (Is your desired concentration really not among those 46 already available?) Double concentrating requires a joint thesis and an enormous amount of intellectual wrestling, and most concentrations are flexible enough that you can probably write a thesis on that joint topic anyways. And classes from many different departments can count towards your concentration as well...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover and Shan Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Getting Through the Stress of Choosing Your Concentration | 8/20/2009 | See Source »

...feel deception is a particularly relevant topic to our society? We are living in a time and culture in which it's easier to lie than it has been in the past. The message that pervades society is that it's O.K. to lie - you can get away with it. One of the things I found in my research is that when you confront people with their lies, they very rarely display remorse. Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We Lie So Much | 8/19/2009 | See Source »

...there was no prior consent for this issue." Party officials refuse to be drawn on the details. There's no denying, though, that Lengsfeld's womanly attributes have turned the district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg into the most exciting constituency in the German capital and made the CDU the hot topic of the day. And that must give Merkel plenty to chuckle about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Busting Out: German Pol Plays the Cleavage Card | 8/17/2009 | See Source »

...summarized the reasons for the film's big bust-out: "Jackson's name means so much to 18-49 aged moviegoers. Comic-Con geeks and movie critic old farts loved it. (Finke later amended the laater phrase to "movie critic geezers." Thanks, Nikki.) It's the #1 most tweeted topic Friday night. And Marc Weinstock's viral marketing campaign for a year bore no Sony/Tri-Star logo on purpose so it wouldn't have a big studio's PR machine feel. (As if the audience had organically discovered the pic themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: District 9 Shows Prawn Power | 8/16/2009 | See Source »

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