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...question is whether Beijing can assuage rural discontent before it hardens into a wider, more flammable agrarian revolt. The central government has experimented with programs that channel money more directly to the people meant to receive it--one project involves wiring teachers' salaries to post-office accounts instead of leaving pay at the discretion of local officials. But the authorities' main tactic for stopping the spread of rural protests remains preventing word about them from getting out. Panlong residents say that since the Jan. 14 protest, their uncensored satellite feed from Hong Kong has been cut, so they have little...
...Keep on Walking: Joshua Nelson, The Jewish Gospel Singer,” will be shown at the Carpenter center. There will also be an Arts Showcase that will include an act by a Senegalese musician from a family of griots along with performances by members of the wider Boston community. BAF’s broad cross-cultural ambition will be displayed in full force on Saturday, Mar. 4, when participants will be encouraged to participate in a hands-on exploration of black art forms by attending one of the many workshops open to anyone interested. Options range from an Expression...
...their enrollments drop. But one of the most welcome results of a more open distribution system will be an open market, so to speak, for courses, where the best-taught courses will be the cream that rises to the top of the pedagogical milk.That process can begin with a wider slate of Core-satisfying courses. When we open the 2006-2007 Courses of Instruction this fall, we hope to find the Core Curriculum section twice as thick before...
...over the group’s open list. Mark B. Geyer ’06 wrote in an e-mail that he was outed when several high schoolers, who he had counseled at summer camp, saw his facebook profile. While the high school-college facebook.com integration has resulted in wider knowledge of his sexuality, Geyer wrote that this has been positive. “I realize that others may face substantially more hostility if they are out to everyone on Facebook,” he wrote. Geyer added that a friend in high school had been struggling with sexuality...
...headlines about Harvard In Turmoil would suggest. If Bok can capitalize on his reservoir of personal good will with the faculty and deep knowledge of academic governance to make everyone feel consulted, I think he can take the best of what Summers started—curriculum reform, wider financial aid, more support for international study, and expansion to Allston—and keep it moving in a way that won’t have to be revisited by his permanent replacement. (On Allston, placing the new Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping an avant-garde German architect...