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...wisdom, wine, and the Harvard women’s volleyball team, things only get better with...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Big League Wins Punctuate Season | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...majority of the Druze lack this comfort. Their holy book, known as the Book of Wisdom, is not easily accessible nor is it comprehensible to the layperson. I would have to give up every aspect of my life to become a “sheikha” and be covered up from head to toe in dark clothes with a long white veil before any “sheikh” would read and explain the Book of Wisdom to me. This is not an option for me or for any Druze woman today...

Author: By Rima Merhi | Title: The Druze Challenge of Survival | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Most of the young Druze generation today suffers from an identity dilemma. Unlike Islam and Christianity, where you can go to religious schools or institutions to be taught the Koran or the Bible, Druze religious authorities have forbidden the circulation of the Book of Wisdom, and only a pious Druze (known as a “sheikh”) has the privilege of reading the holy book alongside “sheikhs” who understand it. This has led to widespread acceptance of the ignorance of the faith...

Author: By Rima Merhi | Title: The Druze Challenge of Survival | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

Kennedy School Lecturer Marshall L. Ganz ’67, one of Steinberg’s colleagues, echoed Solomon-Schwartz’s sentiments, noting that “it is this deep humanity, caring, and wisdom that informs all Bernie does. He thus illuminates not only with his inspiration, not only with his ideas, but, most of all, with his deeds. Is this not what excellence in Jewish education is all about...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hillel Director Earns Teaching Award | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

...microbes to degrade environmental toxins. And computer scientists collaborate with structural biologists to harness the properties of biological macromolecules to re-imagine the computer chip. So why is it that the experience of interdisciplinarity is far too often delayed until the late stages of an undergraduate career? The traditional wisdom at colleges across the country is that understanding the productive interface between scientific disciplines first requires full tool boxes from each of the fields, tool boxes that are packed during the freshman and sophomore years. Then, if you make it to the upper level science courses, light dawns...

Author: By Robert A. Lue | Title: Science and the Liberal Arts | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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