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...faculty say administrators have not done much to explain how the remainder of the review will proceed. Administrators plan to form four new working groups—charged with discussing the general education requirement, the Expository Writing program, science education and the proposed changes to the House system—and flesh out other proposals in already existent Faculty committees, though they have not presented specifics on how this process will work...
Looking back on the turmoil of the 1970s, Bok, who is now a professor at the Kennedy School, writes in an e-mail, “In writing my open letters, I thought that it was incumbent on a Harvard president to explain in detail the University’s reasons for taking a position on an important moral issue, especially when the position was objected to by a substantial number of students...
Guests on the British program have included at least one Harvard faculty member—Agassiz Professor of Zoology James Hanken, who attempted to explain the theory of Darwinian evolution to Ali G several years...
...your head like a relentless hamster wheel. Commissioned for the Shrek 2 sound track, it was designed to be the kind of sticky thing young children and their grandparents could enjoy together. That may shed some light on the line about strawberry ice cream, but it does not explain why a once respectable band consented to sing a song so sugary it would send the Archies into shock. This is catchier than bird flu and possibly just as dangerous...
...lure of Modigliani's pinwheeling life may help to explain the long lines outside the Jewish Museum in New York City, where "Modigliani: Beyond the Myth" opened earlier this month. (It remains there through Sept. 19, then moves on to Toronto and Washington.) But the famous charm of his art is the other explanation. He settled early upon a formula of powerful appeal, a convergence of fastidious lines and abstracted facial features, of intimacy and enigma, that made modernism inviting, even comfortable. He didn't dynamite the human form as Picasso did or distill it to its essence like Matisse...