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Josefina Yanguas is 89 years old. Her voice is velvety and still infused with an august Basque accent after all these years. Her hearing is not as good as it used to be, but she still musters enough wit for biting ripostes. Josefina has served rich coffee and even richer company over the 48 years that she owned Café Pamplona, playing host to writers, students, locals and luminaries. (She sold it to a young Canadian couple last week.) The café, “my little coffeehouse in Cambridge,” as she fondly calls it, will...
...National Committee has about $45 million to the DNC's $9 million. So party advisors are telling local candidates to stay on the phone constantly to raise money. They're advising them that no matter how strong their poll numbers they need to be mentally and financially prepared for August, when Democrats think Republicans will launch millions in negative ads against individual candidates...
...committee to investigate her charge. The committee—made up of historian Stanley H. Hoffman, historian of science Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, and economist Hendrik S. Houthakker—found, in a 2-1 decision, that sexual discrimination influenced the department’s refusal to tenure Skocpol.In August 1981, when Skocpol had already taken a one-year position at the Princeton-affiliated Institute for Advanced Study, then-University president Derek C. Bok announced that he would oversee a three-year review of Skocpol’s work before considering extending her an offer of tenure. Skocpol assumed a tenured...
...undergraduates, and she will serve as a liaison to those offices involved in admitting and retaining international students in the College,” Yale College Dean Peter Salovey wrote in an e-mail announcing Edwards’ appointment.Edwards said she notified Gross of her pending departure, scheduled for August 4, on Tuesday. The vice provost for international affairs, Jorge I. Dominguez—who was himself appointed on May 18—will work very closely with the OIP in the future and be actively involved in the search for new leadership, Gross said. Dominguez, who directed Harvard?...
...Number of Guantnamo Bay detainees who last week joined a hunger strike led by three inmates who have been force-fed since last August...