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Assistant Professor of Government Andrea Campbell ’88 demonstrates the power of music to bring people together. When sitting in the clarinet section of the Harvard Wind Ensemble as an undergraduate, Professor Campbell had no idea that she would sit next to her future husband Alan Feinstein ’86. Today, Professor Campbell is the faculty advisor for the Harvard Pops Orchestra and her husband is the group’s conductor. Having played both the clarinet and piano since the age of 10, Professor Campbell dedicates most of her current musical time to the clarinet...
...stands for. But earlier this year University President Lawrence H. Summers declared that Harvard would not be joining the coalition of 20 other law schools in challenging the government in court. The University’s decision to remain on the sidelines was shameful. As Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz charged this week, “We failed our gay and lesbian students. We failed our principles...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz said in an interview that “Harvard should be ashamed of itself for not having brought the lawsuit and for having capitulated to an immoral and probably illegal extortion...
...sorts of new questions--questions that may ultimately provoke a new scientific revolution. For example, how improbable is our universe? If the answer is not very, there ought to be lots of universes like our own. Or if multiple universes come about through inflation, as M.I.T. cosmologist Alan Guth suspects, "does it produce all types of universes about equally, or does it produce just a few types? We don't know the answer...
...Portman is also incredibly smart (at Harvard, law professor Alan Dershowitz gave her his highest grade in two classes). She's elegant, unpretentious, unguarded and kind. She's an ethical vegetarian who has used her star status to talk to John McCain and Hillary Clinton about micro-financing for women in developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie...