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...most of the Harvard community basked in Friday’s sun, more than 50 students and faculty members absorbed the fluorescent lighting of Longfellow Hall in order to hear a four-hour “teach-in” about the ramifications of Hurricane Katrina.The teach-in, sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, brought together a dozen experts on crisis response, disaster management, and human rights to address what they called a mismanagement of the Katrina threat. In three panels, the group of experts, which included two former residents of New Orleans, discussed the humanitarian issues that the hurricane...
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...thing young engineers who come to work at the lab must do is learn the ways of J.P.L. as an institution, something that's easier to do here than at most other places of business. As long ago as the 1960s, J.P.L. embraced a concept known as "each one teach one," under which senior members of any team were charged with the responsibility of bringing at least one junior member along. In recent years, that system has taken...
...stories on the confusion that marked the response of Federal, state and local governments to Hurricane Katrina drew mail from readers who found fault at all levels. Some who wrote, however, argued against finger pointing, while others hoped the disaster would teach citizens a lesson in civics...
...idea for the film series was born partially out of a course on the history of gay life that McCarthy is planning to teach in the spring. He plans to incorporate movies as entertaining as John Waters’ “Hairspray” (1988) and as serious as the Oscar-winning “Boys Don’t Cry” (1999, dir. Kimberly Pierce...