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...legislature that heard Chavez's speech is itself an odd creature: Every member is allied with the President, although their workload was considerably reduced at the start of this year when Chavez began ruling by decree. The legislature is also given a rather bohemian tint by the fact that it has its own theater troupe. On the evening of Chavez's marathon address, an actor with garments evoking a past century pranced around the floor of the legislature sporting an anguished look. He shook his fists and waved his arms, pleading loudly with the crowd. He was portraying independence hero...
Mothers themselves can be unwitting accomplices. Even women whose own progress in public life depends on sharing the workload in private life act as "gatekeepers" in the home, to use Harvard pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton's description. Dig deeply into household dynamics, and the tensions emerge. Women say they need and want their husbands to be more active parents but fear that they aren't always reliable. Men say they might like to be more involved, but their wives will not make room for them, and jealously guard their domestic power...
This happened through the same failure to see the big picture that caused problems in General Education. When the Faculty postponed concentration choice to mid-sophomore year, it did not mean to vote itself a 17 percent cut in advising workload. Surely, if a choice has to be made, Faculty should advise sophomores deciding on concentrations rather than freshmen. In designing the student experience, everyone had the best intentions at the micro level. At the macro level…there wasn’t any macro level. In the absence of unifying leadership, an incoherent program evolved...
...ambiance in general is very conducive to students talking to each other, or studying,” observes Mahum Shabir ’10. It is ironic that one of the most social spaces on campus is so closely tied to the library, a reminder of the heavy workload that every Harvard student bears. Getting A HeadAlthough the fact that Harvard students love to hang out in their library sounds like a bad joke, this sorry situation might soon change with the opening of the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub, a new, dedicated space in Loker Commons that...
...Does this girl like this guy? Does this guy like me?’”While she struggles to decode innuendo, her classes are perfectly clear; homeschooling brought her time-management skills and the ability to teach herself almost anything. She is particularly comfortable with the college workload because she took all her senior year courses at Bethel University, an evangelical Christian school.“It feels exactly the same,” Jentoft says. “I think the classes here are a little easier.”Outside of the classroom, Jentoft is happily...