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...generally every six weeks to three months, so you're guaranteed to see something new each time you visit. If you're worried that you might end up at the museum at a time when the "C-list" works are on display, don't fret. The collection is so vast and consistently excellent that almost every piece would be on permanent show just about anywhere else. When asked if there are some "Mona Lisa-level" pieces that are so famous or significant they warrant being on display all the time, Dainobu sniffs that the museum doesn't feel the need...
...Buddhist temple. Here, at last, they find a welcoming but totally foreign culture where "religion wasn't grim or judgmental, like my impressions growing up," as Neufeld notes. Suddenly relaxed, Neufeld opens up to the serendipitous nature of travel and feels content. Other adventures include the exploration of a vast cave, where he faces his mortality, and his appearance as an extra on the "New York" set of a Singapore soap opera, where he finds his own culture as the foreign...
Nonetheless, the responsibility for changing the culture at Harvard also falls on students. The “global competency” the HCCR advocates for must be sought out; it cannot be sidelined as the administration’s pet project. Already, the vast majority of students appear interested. According to Harvard College data, 80 percent or more students consider an international experience in the course of their college careers. However, before those numbers can be translated into increased exposure, student organizations must become more flexible and amenable to study abroad. Leadership offices in most organizations are commonly held during...
...accuracy how many students are actually attaining a “significant international experience” during their four years. Centralizing this information in one place could help solve that problem, and it could also enable students to more easily tap into Harvard’s impressive and vast international alumni network. Surely this diverse and talented group—through the efforts of a centralized international jobs and internships office—could be better harnessed to offer experiences to students interested in exploring anywhere from Mumbai to Buenos Aires...
...difficult. Unlike American retailers, eager to sell even the most hideous products, the woman in the textile shop immediately contradicts all my selections, simply saying “No” to each fabric I point to. Finally I just completely surrender to her judgment. Kiras come in a vast array of colors and prints, though I carefully avoid red, which only monks and nuns wear—a fact I learned after I had arrived wearing a red button-down shirt. “You’d make a great nun, Merritt,” my roommate Linda...