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...extend much beyond Harvard Yard. “It’s not going to put Harvard on the front page of The New York Times,” Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan says.But come July 1, the president who helped Harvard usher through its last curricular review will once again be at the University’s helm.Some faculty members say they hope that Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok’s presence will allow for a substantial reevaluation of Harvard’s general education. Bok recently analyzed data on undergraduate...
...principal cast lent their luster to the evening. Anika Noni Rose, a 2004 Tony winner for Caroline, or Change, was brought up on stage, as were Jennifer Hudson from American Idol and star-of-the-future Keith Robinson (who got his chance when negotiations with R&B singer Usher broke down). Eddie Murphy couldn't make it, so Foxx managed a dead-accurate impersonation, right down to Murphy's trademark donkey laugh...
Others across the city are eagerly looking to the ICA to usher in a new era in Boston’s relationship with contemporary art. Says Lee, “If something exciting is happening at one museum, other museums become more courageous...
...China's religious freedom is by no means absolute. Seeking personal salvation is fine, but public displays of religiosity outside the confines of state-controlled institutions are not. China's history is filled with religious uprisings against the state, like the millenarian cults that helped usher out China's last imperial dynasty, the Qing. Hence the continuing crackdown against the meditation movement Falun Gong or the raid last month on an unofficial Bible study in central Henan province that was termed "evil cult" activity by the police. In northwestern Xinjiang, where the Chinese government is fighting a separatist movement...
...years after Ryan's unilateral move set off a wave of capital punishment reforms nationwide, conservative prosecutors throughout the state are hoping a change at the Governor's Mansion this fall can usher back the death penalty. While Democratic incumbent Rod Blagojevich has said Ryan's moratorium should remain in place, at least for the foreseeable future, his Republican challenger and state treasurer Judy Baar Topinka has hinted that enough safeguards have now been put into place for the death penalty to be reinstated...