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...maybe there's the slight possibility that he won't become a punch line. That there's something so truthful about him, it's plausible he can succeed at even this impossible task. If he can go from being famous for making his butt talk to being famous for being a Jimmy Stewart nice guy to perhaps getting people to believe him as a threatening sex symbol in The Number 23, then maybe he can be a guru. "It's not any of that that people have liked about me," he says of his humor and characters...
...interview last week, Task Force co-chair Alison Simmons, a philosophy professor, emphasized the importance of administrative backing for the reforms...
...Corner. If the plan is approved by the Boston Redevelopment Authority—the agency that oversees the city’s construction and renewal projects—construction could begin as early as this summer. But late last month, the Allston residents who sit on the Harvard-Allston Task Force submitted comments to the agency stating that the museum project should not be approved in its current form. The letter cited several concerns, particularly the size of the museum’s location, to explain why the task force sought to delay approval of the project...
...recently published Report of the Task Force on General Education has this idea squarely in view. Its authors wrote, “General education is the place where students are brought to understand how everything that we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives and to the world they will confront.” There are various interpretations of this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place...
Without detracting from the difficulty of the General Education Committee’s task, it is easy to imagine how one might go about preparing students for thinking about and aspiring to live a—as opposed to the—good life. We must challenge them to grapple with the various answers to the question of what constitutes a good life, and what constitutes its opposite,that have been handed down to us by our heritage (to use a phrase from the Red Book...