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...anonymous wit scratched those lines on the side of a junked car door and lugged it to a trail near my home in Northern California. The middle of a pristine, ancient redwood grove is the wrong place to find a rusted-out car door, but the words magically transformed the thing from an aggravating piece of junk into art. I Googled the quote as soon as I got home, of course, but found nothing. (Thanks to Google, we live in a world where "I don't know" has become an unacceptable response. So my inability to identify the author there...
...Andrews, the Radcliffe Institute announced yesterday. Richardson, a leading scholar on terrorism and political violence, will be the first woman to serve as principal and vice chancellor—the Scottish equivalent of American universities’ president—at St. Andrews, one of seven “ancient universities” starting January 2009. Richardson’s selection as principal is pathbreaking because she is not a Scot, she is not from within St. Andrews, and she is not male. In an interview yesterday, Richardson likened her appointment to University President Drew G. Faust?...
...approved. Classics professor Kathleen M. Coleman’s Culture and Belief 17: “Institutional Violence and Public Spectacle: The Case of the Roman Games”—adapted from Historical Study B-06—will probe why institutionalized violence was so popular in ancient Rome. Romance languages and literature professor Doris Sommer’s Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding 13: “Cultural Agents”—formerly Spanish 280— was also approved. It will include a “Social Agents Fair” where students meet local...
...specialty is ancient science, where he studies medicine and mechanics—areas that tend to escape the purview of classics professors...
...Harvard field hockey team, a promising start to the 2007 campaign did not last, as the Crimson squandered a 3-0 Ivy League start by dropping three of its final four Ancient Eight contests. Despite controlling its own destiny midway through the year, Harvard could not reverse a late-season slide that left the team tied for fourth place. Though the season-ending 2-1 loss at Columbia dashed the team’s hopes of finishing as high as second in the Ivies, the players feel confident that the team is on an upward trajectory. The late-fall fade...