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...cooking bibles such as Escoffier and Larousse Gastronomique and masters ranging from Julia Child and James Beard to Thomas Keller and Wolfgang Puck. "If David suggests something from Thailand or Argentina or Costa Rica," Okura says, he will talk to chefs with that expertise. "We will get to the core of any cuisine, any culture." Okura and his chefs may experiment with abandon, but they have a deep appreciation for the rules they're breaking...
...Still, Coulter undermines her own case with her sloppiness. As early as page 4 of Godless comes this assault on grammar: "The core of environmentalism is that they hate mankind." A few pages later she indelicately misplaces a modifier: "Whether Jews or Christians, liberals are always on a witch hunt against people who appear to believe...
...supervision of our faculty while living on campus and enjoying meals and evening programming together, to build community among students in the sciences. A key component of the curricular review that remains before us is the creation of a new program in general education, which will replace the Core Curriculum. The Faculty has been discussing a two-pronged approach to general education, which includes a distribution requirement that will provide students with some breadth in their programs, and specially designed courses intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge that they will need to become engaged and responsible citizens...
...worry about this whenever I am asked by deans and presidents of leading foreign universities to define (and sometimes to help them to adopt) a “Harvard education.” When colleagues from several Asian countries have asked how best they could import our Core Curriculum, I felt compelled to tell them of all its strengths. But I also share with them our several proposals to replace...
...thus there is no one defining “Harvard education.” The last century has seen a multiplicity of experiments: from a free elective system, from one of concentration and constraint, to the structures of General Education and Core, to our most recent recommendations to give the extraordinary students we admit to this place considerably greater agency in shaping their own education. Each generation has both the freedom and responsibility to define a Harvard education for its time...