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...ones directed at kids become critical dartboards? Or to point out that most of the children's theater I've seen in the past few years has had more theatrical verve and originality than most of the serious stuff I've had to sit through on Broadway? Or to wish, just once, that Disney might get a little credit for recruiting some of the most adventurous theater artists in the world to bring new ideas in staging and storytelling to a mass theater audience, kids and adults alike...
...tabled last spring so that the proposal—which closes the loophole that allows professors to decline course evaluations for classes with over five students—could be further fleshed out. For these reforms and other important matters to receive this kind of treatment makes one wish that faculty approval were not required to bring these issues out of bureaucratic limbo. Students want to see reforms immediately, and a Faculty that does not care whether reforms are implemented next week, next year, or next decade seems woefully out of touch with the urgent need to modernize Harvard?...
...race, and all eyes were on it. The Swiss had two attempts scheduled [in spring and autumn of 1952], and we were in the mountains climbing around and listening for news. We were really quite concerned as to whether or not the Swiss would be successful. We didn't wish them any harm at all, we were quite respectful of them really. But we just hoped that they wouldn't be successful getting to the top. The Swiss put in a particularly good effort, getting to 28,000 feet. That's when Tenzing really came into his own. He teamed...
...biggest art market), Japan, Russia, India or any number of other nations with deep-pocketed collectors. Once a stolen work crosses into another country, varying and often contradictory laws mean it can get trapped in legislative red tape for years, sometimes indefinitely. Better international cooperation is high on the wish lists of many an art squad. "The difficulty is convincing our European partners that we need to work together to fight this scourge," says Lieut. Colonel Pierre Tabel, head of the OCBC. "If these countries are not going to effectively control their art market, well...
...hardest part of having that kind of power is deciding where to act and under what circumstances. I was the United Nations ambassador at the time of Rwanda, and I wish that we had been able to do more at the time...