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ElizabethtownDirected by Cameron CroweParamount Pictures3.5 Stars“I teach [my kid] about Abraham Lincoln and Ronnie Van Zant because they are both of equal importance,” says one character in Cameron Crowe’s “Elizabethtown,” the latest work from the creative genius behind “Almost Famous.” In this new film, the writer-director attempts to make sense of the varied and often irreverent cultural contrasts and contradictions he finds amid the Mississippi River Valley. Crowe starts his film in the contrastingly sterile and bland corporate...
...will most probably repeat two courses that I took here, just because the level of depth was not good enough,” Rishi Jajoo ’07, a physics concentrator studying at the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay this semester, writes in an e-mail.Language and teaching style can also be barriers.“It’s pretty difficult to go abroad and complete science requirements in a country that’s not speaking English,” says Benjamin R. Robbins ’06, a physics concentrator who studied in Madrid through...
...forefront of many of our minds right now, I would like to draw attention to a profession that rarely gets the consideration it deserves. It is ironic that after spending almost two decades as students, so few of us give a second of thought to teaching. Perhaps not all of us are meant to spend our entire lives presiding over the classroom, but I would argue that everyone who makes it to a premier educational institution like Harvard should at least give it a try. Here are my top ten reasons why:10. Unleash your creativity: Teaching doesn?...
Those who can’t do teach. However, this doesn’t apply to women’s soccer co-captain goalkeeper Katie Shields, who is excelling in her career on the field before pursuing one off of it. The four year starter is well on her way to a record-breaking final season for the Crimson. Shields leads a defense that has allowed a mere five goals in 11 games. Her eight shutouts are a season record for the keeper, who entered the season with just seven career shutouts. Shields also boasts a 0.44 goals against average...
...reached his company's mandatory retirement age of 57. "I was still able to work every day," says Hagiwara, who spent 30 years developing better feed for fish farming. So he enlisted with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which sent him for a two-year stint to teach fish farming in the mountains of Honduras. When that was finished, he re-upped for a tour in Malaysia and then Egypt. "I thought it would be good if I could use my experience and work for someone else," says the dapper 67-year-old. "It's a different culture, with...