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Mentioning the name of Haman elicits boos and rowdy noise-making during the Jewish holiday of Purim. But the festival, celebrated this year on March 17, prompts raves, as well, mostly for the food and the excuse to make merry. The wicked and corrupt advisor to Persia’s King Ahasuerus, as told in Jewish scriptures, Haman failed in his plan to eradicate the Jews. But everybody wins with Haman’s namesake, the hamantaschen, a delectable triangular-shaped cookie filled with fruit jam (usually prune) or poppy seed. The Yiddish name means the pocket of Haman...
Kagan, who declined to comment for this story, shares a common history with Summers. Each took time away from academia in the 1990s to work in the Clinton administration—he as the number-two at the Treasury Department, she as a top domestic policy advisor. Appointed a visiting professor in 1999, Kagan is relatively new to the faculty, and doesn’t carry very much baggage...
...Amos] has been and continues to be the consummate teacher: available, approachable, knowledgeable and wise,” Mekalanos said in the e-mail. “Members of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics are forever grateful that we can say that Harold Amos has been our advisor, colleague, teacher and friend...
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