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...director of the Harvard University Art Museums was there, the man who oversees its vast empire of 160,000 pieces. So was the head of the Office for the Arts, who ensures that undergraduates have the resources they need to pursue their creative ventures. As was the executive director of the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge’s premiere theater troupe. And the head of the Peabody, Harvard’s world-renowned anthropological museum...
...museums serve a teaching function, according to Cuno. Without “vast improvement to the transportation system between the Yard and Allston,” they would lose that capacity and be relegated to a weekend destination...
...this technology can also serve as an effective deterrent against cheating. Students who know their work will be checked using vast online databases, however infrequent the checks, will certainly think twice before plagiarizing their papers...
...this unabashed commercialism (plus a great gift for pop hooks) that makes Twain the ruler of the vast collection of ears between Madonna and Garth Brooks. She began her career appealing to a country audience that was first scandalized and then hypnotized by her pop sensibilities--and her conspicuously bare midriff. Then in 1997 Twain recorded Come on Over, a brilliantly calculated mix of pop and country that has sold 19 million copies and is the most popular album by a female singer in American history. Twain and Whitney Houston are the only women to have two albums sell more...
...worth as much money as 10,000 African lives. When lives are put in stark terms of cash value—one life the victim of extortionists and the other the victim of cruel circumstance—the disparity in “value” is shockingly vast. How can one justify saving one life when one could save...