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...Monday. Carter—who is co-director of the Preventive Defense Project—has been a vocal critic of the Pentagon for purchasing what he deems to be unnecessary weapons and has called for greater alignment between military strategy and spending. Carter was originally scheduled to teach the class “American National Security Policy” at the Kennedy School this spring, but he joins the growing list of Harvard professors who have traded their office in Cambridge for one in DC. This hasn’t been the first time that Carter has worked...
...Kagan says she has taken a step toward reducing the perceived level of competition—though students acknowledge that competition is a way of life at Harvard. For her part, Kagan calls her student body “extraordinary” and a “privilege to teach.” Her willingness to hear student views contributes to what has been described as a shift in institutional culture to treat students as more than an afterthought at the august school.“I very much wanted to instill an attitude that the reason we were doing...
...which lisping Puerto Rican call girls offer advice on oral sex and superstitious Chinese women throw knives at enemies. When racial stereotypes aren’t heavily reinforced, Mun utilizes conspicuous hints to contextualize Joon’s acquaintances—a fellow runaway who endeavors to teach Joon life lessons is named Knowledge, while a former addict who is painfully honest about the difficulties of overcoming addiction is named Frank. Mun’s “Miles from Nowhere” successfully creates an historical snapshot of New York City, providing effective reference points for a specific time...
...many as 200 boys and girls are enrolled in Makdah's fighting camp - a tin hangar with an asphalt parade ground, where they learn the basics of hand-to-hand combat, firearms and Palestinian national ideology. "We teach what they don't learn at United Nations schools," says one local Palestinian official. On one recent day, some 50 schoolboy cadets gathered in Makdah's office after attending a demonstration against Israeli attacks on Gaza. He offered them a lesson they are unlikely to forget. "In the past, Jews used to kill us, and no one defended us," he explained. "Today...
...assistant professor at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences won a National Science Foundation award and over $200,000 for her teaching and research into how fungi can clean up mining sites, SEAS announced Monday. Colleen M. Hansel, a specialist in environmental microbiology, will receive $212,000 over the next two years and up to $537,000 over the next five years through the foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development award, she said in an interview yesterday. The award is given annually by the foundation to faculty in the sciences who haven?...