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...with information.” A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford, Roberts did not even discover her interest in art history until senior year. “I started out in human biology, which I did for two years, then I switched to English, and ended up my senior year double majoring in English and Art History.” Roberts says that what really drew her to art history was the interdisciplinary aspect of the field, which allowed her to apply her knowledge of biology, history, science, geology, engineering, literature, and even philosophy. As she describes art history...
...case for why the U.S. education system needs national standards. Isaacson, a former managing editor of TIME who runs the Aspen Institute and is the board chair of Teach for America, argues that on the grounds of fairness and competitiveness, it's high time for national standards in American schools in English and mathematics. It's a compelling argument, and to accompany the story, I wanted to talk to the man who might actually help implement national standards, Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan, a former CEO of Chicago's schools, has a historic opportunity...
...shame. The Norman Conquests is so damned funny (though grounded, as Ayckbourn's comedy always is, in real human emotion) that it may simply perpetuate the misconception of Ayckbourn as a skilled boulevard entertainer. Which would leave American audiences still largely ignorant of the astonishing body of work by - controversial-pronouncement alert! - the greatest living English-language playwright...
...scene and non-western art. While a student at Harvard, he studied English literature and was an editor for the Advocate. A native of Boston, the journalist said that he was raised in a family that loved music, books, and art. As a teenager in the sixties, Cotter said that he was heavily influenced by a combination of Boston’s strong Asian art collections and the culturally pioneering times. Cotter said he knew that he wanted to study literature at Harvard, specifically with renowned American poet Robert Lowell. As a freshman in 1966, Cotter enrolled in Lowell?...
David V. Kimel ’05 graduated summa cum laude in Classics. He was half of 2005’s American Parliamentary Debate Team of the Year. And he has also written a children’s book. He seems vaguely aware of the unorthodoxy of his situation. While his debate friends were going off to law school, Kimel taught English in a South Korean steel factory instead. “It was like being in a Charles Dickens book,” he recalls. “It was at that time that I started looking back...