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...Twelve” is a chilling story about preppy New York City teens who get high on hard-core narcotics, sleep with drug dealers, and – ultimately – shoot each other. That novel, which McDonell wrote during the summer of 2001 before his senior year of high school, climaxed in a bloodbath more befitting a B-movie than a serious literary work. Nonetheless, the book elicited effusive praise from critics in the U.S. and the United Kingdom, and McDonell’s pithy prose was appropriately likened to Hemingway?...
...initiative will offer students outside Cambridge a high-definition window onto one of Harvard’s most popular courses. Starting today, lectures for Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel’s Core course, “Moral Reasoning 22: Justice,” will be filmed in high-definition video to be transmitted over the Internet to students worldwide...
...course, History 10a: Introduction to Western Societies, Politics, and Cultures. Elsewhere known as “Western Civilization,” History 10a, still taken at Harvard by a few hundred students each year, is a remnant of the post-World War II liberal arts curriculum. It survived the Core Curriculum innovations of the 1970s and now cowers in a corner of the course catalogue, hoping to avoid the axe of the current curricular review...
Although a requirement for history concentrators as well as a Historical Studies B Core course, History 10a lacks an audience, a theoretical underpinning, and a function. The class presumes to cover well over two thousand years of Western history, scrambling to rush from archaic Greece to late antiquity in one month of lectures, the Middle Ages in another month, and the early modern period in what remains. Its only exciting aspect, that it is co-taught by three specialists, proves not to be enough: lecturers, rather than offering original arguments, simply attempt to give centuries the coverage they deserve. This...
Schultz—who had two tackles for a loss—and fellow freshman Sean Hayes added depth to the linebacker core and helped keep the Crusaders star running back, Steve Silva, in check...