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...hits like Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits and I Want to Take You Higher. After Tina left in 1976, Ike fumbled, but last year he found new fans with his Grammy-winning album Risin' with the Blues. He was 76. He held one of the most prestigious posts in academia before a slur, uttered while he was ill, ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls...
...England, MacMahon attended the University of Birmingham. He served for two years as a ship’s doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond to study in Brooklyn. He finally settled at Harvard in 1958, when he assumed leadership of the department. MacMahon retired from academia in 1989, soon after he stepped down as chair of epidemiology. He died after suffering complications from a stroke. Dimitrios Trichopoulos, who succeeded MacMahon as head of the epidemiology department, praised MacMahon’s scientific accomplishments, as well as his personal strengths. “Brian MacMahon...
...always been stuck between two fields—I like academia, but I also like being in D.C. and working on policy,” he says...
...politics and in academia, Chen—who took time off from writing his Ph.D. dissertation to join the Romney campaign—consistently makes deep impressions on friends, bosses, and colleagues...
...Martha Graham Dance Company, Dakin brings to the classroom firsthand experience with the iconic modern dancer, to whom she refers with personal familiarity and deep respect. It is also not difficult to see why Harvard might have chosen Graham’s work as an initial bridge between academia and dance. “There’s an intellectual and a literary aspect to Martha’s work that has always been fascinating to me,” says Dakin. Dakin herself did not discover dance until college, where she began taking modern dance with Elizabeth Bergmann...