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...quick browse through the Courses of Instruction will yield classes on topics as specific as medieval Welsh literature and the theory of the individual in Chinese literary culture. However, even a thorough search would not reveal the words “Public Speaking” in any course title.Many students and faculty members believe that this is problematic, and that Harvard should address this area of education by offering courses in public speaking.“A place like Harvard, with all its resources, would be able to put together a very good course,” says Ryan...
...British Medical Journal. Doshi’s article raised three main points of contention: an alleged misrepresentation on the CDC website, alleged inconsistencies in the CDC data, and a dubious causality between flu and deaths caused by pneumonia. Doshi told The Crimson that his interest in the topic sparked after the CDC reported an increase in the average annual death rate, in 2003, from 20,000 to 36,000. According to Doshi, the CDC made a strong connection between pneumonia-related deaths and the flu. The CDC ascribed 8,000 of the 36,000 annual flu-attributed deaths to pneumonia...
...called on Didi Goldmark, 63, a former libel defense lawyer from New Hope, Pa. "Since the inception of the Iraqi war," she said, "I'd like to know the approximate total of Iraqis who have been killed. And by Iraqis I include civilians, military, police, insurgents, translators." The topic is a favorite of liberal bloggers and the administration has usually brushed it off by saying that the Pentagon does not count Iraqi victims. The President showed a new confidence by answering the question head-on, with no filibusters. "How many Iraqi citizens have died in this war?" he said, beginning...
Edington could have retreated into his grief, but instead, he preached three Christmas sermons that week on a topic he had never talked about before: Joseph, the husband of Mary and, as he pointed out, the "adoptive" father of Jesus. But he did not stop there. He began working on a book about Joseph that further delved into the nature of the relationship between the older man and his holy child...
...Mary, inhibited their relationship with the Virgin. On the other hand, he doesn't particularly interest them either. There are exceptions. The neo-orthodox theologian Karl Barth championed Joseph's role of taking care of Jesus. The black church in the U.S., says Robert Franklin, an expert on that topic at Atlanta's Emory University, has long felt a connection between Joseph as patriarch of an unexpectedly blended family and African-American slave history, in which men "found their own wives full with child and at the birth discovered the child was a mulatto." But for the most part, explains...