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...size but also because of its subject matter. While the other works have some visible recognition of the artists’ descent, Madahar captures birds visiting feeders—in Framingham, Massachusetts, no less. While laudable that the exhibition brings together the diverse works of photographers in one forum, the common thread among the photographs is the artists’ shared ethnicity ultimately seems to be too weak a basis on which to center a collection...
...faculty member will serve as program director instead of an administrator.Indeed, when the original Core was created in 1978, most of the details of implementation were left to the Core Committee, which was described by then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky as “the main forum in [the Faculty] for the discussion of undergraduate education.”The only mention of departmental alternatives in the new legislation is a sub-point that charges the committee with creating a policy concerning “alternative means for fulfilling general education requirements with, for example, departmental courses...
...Every Democrat in the 2008 presidential field has promised to provide health coverage to all the estimated 47 million Americans who lack it and to curb costs that have sent premiums soaring four times as fast as wages. On March 24, seven candidates showed up for a health-care forum that I moderated in Las Vegas, sponsored by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Service Employees International Union, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. (Though all the Republican contenders were invited, none accepted. Senator Joe Biden was the only Democrat to decline...
Illinois Senator Barack Obama disappointed many who attended the forum. Obama says he is thinking big when it comes to health-care reform, but he was noticeably uncomfortable when pressed for details. Morgan Miller, a young woman in the audience, told Obama that she had searched his campaign website for specifics and hadn't found them. "What really are your top issues when you want to talk about health care?" she asked him. "Are you going to address the pharmaceutical companies? Are you going to address the insurance companies?" Obama, pleading that his campaign was only eight weeks old, promised...
...presidency of Harvard is the perfect pulpit from which to tackle these issues. With our influential community of scholars, we have the world’s premier forum to face the most interdisciplinary of all problems. Addressing global questions of sustainability demands the attention of all our faculties, both as academics and as human beings. Our most basic ways of life demand that we provide real answers about how we will produce energy, build homes, and grow food in an increasingly strained world, answers that require political finesse, scientific rigor, innovative design, and legal savvy...