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...Harvard a community in which to live and create. Among the report’s suggestions was a new undergraduate Dramatic Arts concentration, and Harvard could certainly create avenues for more performance-oriented study within existing concentrations—like music—that are currently more oriented toward history or theory. Certain measures can be enabled by existing funds for the arts and optimistic financial flags like the $5 million portion of a gift from David Rockefeller ’36. In this effort to increase the accessibility to artistic opportunities on campus, the task force has addressed...
...needs to be done in promoting top-down education change in this country, and the onus first falls on President-elect Obama. In the early moments of his administration, it will be pivotal for him to appoint leaders, especially a secretary of education, who will further facilitate the trend toward public sector work and service by the nation’s top graduates. After all, the economy will at some point recuperate, and positions at Wall Street firms will return. And when they do, our nation must still work toward increasing the appeal and prestige of public sector work...
...complex man, Guevara. We are told he was a medical student, suffered from asthma, was more ruthless than Castro, was the real brain behind the operation. Big deal. ... When we aren't getting newsreels, we're getting routine footage of guerrilla clashes in the jungle. ... All this movie inspires toward the Cuban Revolution is excruciating boredom...
...nothing to lose (it's behind) and partly because, historically, Democrats screw up their ballots more often than Republicans. They're the shaky-handed elderly, the movement-limited disabled, the instruction-confused immigrants, the first-time-voting minorities. But despite this tension, the two law teams have been pleasant toward each other. Franken lead attorney Marc Elias, who was head counsel for the John Kerry campaign, says, "It's been cordial. I've met Coleman's lawyer, Mr. Knaak, three times. He seems like a nice fellow." In fact, each side independently has taken back hundreds of ballot challenges...
...elections, including playing up threats to their lives. But there is hope that the aftermath of the polls may be less stormy. Hasina's AL look like the favorites at this point, and in recent weeks, have made the right noises about sharing power and pushing toward a more consensus-driven politics. One AL declaration suggested that the opposition - whoever it may be - retain certain prominent seats in parliament, such as that of the deputy speaker. "There needs to be a proper participatory parliament," says Riaz, of Illinois State University. "Democracy cannot function without a really vibrant and an effective...