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...fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent on European expansion and imperialism in History 10b: Western Economies, Societies and Polities from 1648 to the Present (this seems a little sparse considering the extreme force with which European “expansion?? impacted the economics and politics of the modern world), require no readings from non-Western authors. Therefore, while students are free to study the works of colonized writers in departmental or upper-level history courses, their introduction to “history” must...
...nowhere is this axiom more evident than in our eating habits. Just as Americans worship largeness in all its forms, buying ever-bigger cars to venture out into ever-wider landscapes, their restaurant portions are often twice as large as their European counterparts. But amidst this expansion of expansion??and the brashness that often accompanies it—there is a counterculture that races to embrace all things small.At the forefront of the miniaturization are “twee” kids, so called for the ironically childish British pronunciation of the word “sweet...
...Don’t go into it unless you have a problem you want to solve,” he said. In an interview after the talk, Watson, a professor in the biology department from 1956 to 1976, addressed Harvard’s impending Allston expansion??including construction of a 589,000-square foot science complex—which he criticized in a chapter in “Avoid Boring People.” “I think Harvard should use its money to improve the quality of science, not quantity,” he said...
...Some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been critical of recent central administration expansion??most recently in Provost Steven E. Hyman’s office—and have questioned the value of newly created posts...
...Some members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have been critical of recent central administration expansion??most recently in Provost Steven E. Hyman's office—and have questioned the value of newly created posts...