Jack Nicholson

1 week ago | higheredtoday.org | Steven L. Bloom |Jack Nicholson |Laurie Arnston

As Congress works on a sweeping rewrite of the tax code, students and families across the country are watching—and hoping this moment leads to real change that will increase access to higher education. The conversation in Washington will likely center on what to keep, what to cut, and how to fit higher education into the massive, complex puzzle that is the U.S. tax code.

Dec 13, 2024 | thecritic.co.uk | Jack Nicholson

I first met Father George Guiver of the Community of the Resurrection in Mirfield, an Anglican religious community, in summer 2019. An impressionable undergraduate, I had signed up to the Community’s “Monastic Experience” week after my college chaplain suggested I might explore their way of life. There is a story of a teenager called June Flewett who was sent from London to the home of C. S. Lewis as an evacuee in 1942, but “had no idea” whose house she was in.

Oct 13, 2024 | plough.com | Jack Nicholson

“Troll – in the dungeons,” reports Professor Quirrell, and the dining hall explodes in an uproar. “It took several purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledore’s wand to bring silence.” For me, this moment in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone has taken on an almost totemic status. And the corresponding scene in the film is even more memorable.

Oct 6, 2024 | record.com.mx | Jack Nicholson

El Salón de la Fama del Baloncesto Naismith anunció este viernes un acontecimiento sin precedentes en su historia: la inclusión de una nueva clase de entusiastas de la NBA en su clase 2024, que será reconocida por su pasión y lealtad hacia sus equipos a lo largo de los años.

Oct 4, 2024 | providencemag.com | Jack Nicholson

Writing in Providence, Timothy Cutler identified eighteenth-century political philosopher Edmund Burke as an “Anglican theologian,” principally relevant today for having understood “the theological underpinnings of our social order,” with Burke himself having been “a defender of the institutions of Christian civilization.” In 2023, the historian Richard Whatmore, in The End of Enlightenment, argued that in Burke’s lifetime the Enlightenment, for all its promises of radically improving the...