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...direct speech (“You close your eyes and feel our love coming up behind you,” Sadie tells Marianne, “that’s all you got in this world”). Reaching from anecdotes before Sadie and Jim are born to the turmoil of the Reconstruction Era South, it has an epic quality, without feeling imposing; “historical” data float in and out of the narrative, more or less organically...
Though his faculty is in turmoil, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) William C. Kirby has yet to issue any statement of his views on the current controversy centering on many professors’ discontent with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership of Harvard...
...majority of students like Michael, a trip to study in the U.S. lands them in a household with other school-age children. But a growing number of empty nesters are flinging open their doors to children from around the world. Despite global political turmoil, in the 2003-04 academic year more than 27,000 high school students from countries such as South Korea, Yemen, Uzbekistan and Peru lived with U.S. families, according to the Council on Standards for International Travel, the industry's trade association. Although the number of hosts who are empty nesters is not known, Ted Bennett, president...
...conceptions of my peers, as well as of intellectual life at Harvard, have been thrown into turmoil. I now question the value of intellectual passion in a world that seems increasingly to be based on grades, course requirements and career prospects. I question the effectiveness and sensibility of our cutthroat GPA and exam-based academic structure. But I also question the mindset of science professors and of my fellow students. At what point did professors automatically expect that their students studied their subject matters because of career requirements rather than intellectual appeal? Why are so many of my fellow students...
...dominated airwaves at the time, Low stripped its sound down to barely a whisper, producing fragile songs for a series of independent labels. Comprised of husband-wife team Alan Sparhawk and Mimi Parker, along with bassist Zak Sally, the band continues to produce songs that tell of a secret turmoil. Probably the most recognizable pioneer of “slowcore” (a sonically lethargic genre that also includes acts like Bedhead and Codeine), Low’s sad songs have long served as an emotional outlet for fans; only recently have they flirted with the poppier sounds that permeate...