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...that he’s retired from teaching at the various university writing programs where he taught in the ’70s and ’80s, Ashbery’s daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs...
...involved in those two organizations.” Flynn realized halfway through her first year at Harvard that she was going to pursue a career in musical theater, and now she will be “creatively unemployed” next year, as she will move to New York City to try her luck in making it on the big stage: Broadway. Flynn has come a long way from her beginnings as an irresolute freshman, and it all started with a change of perspective: “Realizing that going to Harvard and doing theater weren?...
...made academic gains, concurrent improvements in the performance of white students have kept the achievement gap consistently wide. Among high-school-age students, that gulf translated to a roughly two to three school-year lag in achievement, according to a U.S. Department of Education official quoted in the New York Times. Despite the persistence of these inequities in academic achievement, “the NAEP results are encouraging news,” said Ronald F. Ferguson, director of Harvard’s Achievement Gap Initiative. “While the achievement gap has not narrowed much, achievement is rising...
...this year’s recipients of the Jonathan Levy Award, which recognizes “the most promising actor or actress at the University,” it’s clear that her genetic predisposition for the stage paid off. Growing up in New York City, Sherman would spend long hours after school with her mother in the costume shop. When she started high school at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn, she began taking acting classes and performing in shows. When she got to Harvard, though, Sherman decided not to participate in the theater scene...
...surprising case of immigration policy affecting Harvard, Nur Munir, a candidate for a master’s degree at the Harvard Divinity School, is now in York County Prison in Pennsylvania awaiting deportation. After facilitating the downfall of Indonesian President Suharto in 1998, Munir feared persecution from Suharto’s military supporters and fled to America. However, his application for asylum was denied, appealed, and finally denied again on March 18, 2009, by the Third Circuit. Regardless of the validity of his asylum claims—Munir was found to have credible subjective but not objective fears of persecution?...