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Colleges, then, are right to forgive some students’ lower scores. Leadership qualities, extracurricular involvement, achievement outside of the classroom, and raw demographics are factors that are key in evaluating every applicant. When the numbers are tabulated, a few snapshots of the data will look extreme, but this is no reason to flee from a worthy process...
...next, checking on works he has already booked and buying new ones, Zhang is treated like royalty. "That's mine," he says at a photo gallery, pointing to a picture of a man's back that has been painted with a classical Chinese landscape, then to one in which raw meat has been arranged into the shape of Chinese characters. "And that, and that...
...Boston directly on the heels of a Broadway run that earned five Tony nominations, including one win for Cynthia Nixon, who originated the role of the mother, Becca. What is confusing about this production, running through Dec. 3 at the Boston University Theatre, is that the raw material in Lindsay-Abaire’s script is so excellent—in the deft hands of Nixon and Tony-nominated director Daniel Sullivan, it must have been an emotional Tilt-a-Whirl.This production runs more like an emotional steam-roller thanks to John Tillinger’s blunt direction, barreling forward with...
...quality of undergraduate teaching at Harvard is alarmingly unpredictable. All the pedagogical innovations in the world cannot make up for raw passion and talent in teaching. Because of this, the most effective way to improve the quality of a Harvard education is to hire teachers imbued with these qualities. This can only happen if teaching ability is considered as part of the tenure decisions for Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors. Former University President Lawrence H. Summers expanded the importance of teaching experience and evaluations in tenure decisions; the next president must continue this endeavor. And a system which...
...Bottom Line: Despite the fact that “For Your Consideration” is slightly different from Christopher Guest’s usual “mockumentaries,” it is a memorable and necessary trip to the theater because of its ridiculous characters and raw humor...