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Stagehands scurried around the Barker Center in mid-February with potted plants and a flashy red banner in hand. Inside the first-floor Thompson Room, the stage was being set for the afternoon’s main act: President-elect Drew G. Faust. Flanked by members of Harvard’s governing boards, and with John Harvard and a former Radcliffe president looking down from the wood-paneled walls, Faust took the national spotlight for the first time as Harvard’s next leader...
...three days after news of her selection first leaked out, Drew Faust took center stage underneath a bronze bust of John Harvard in the Barker Center’s Thompson Room...
Everbody loves Bob Barker -- everyone, let's say, except the occasional litigious ex--Barker's Beauty or unwillingly neutered collie. And everybody respects Bob Barker. Since he announced his retirement from The Price Is Right (he tapes his last show June 6), the plaudits have rolled in: he has been called a legend, an institution, a record-setting...
...random: you don't take a qualifying test but are picked from the crowd. It's social: studio-audience help is not forbidden but encouraged, if often wrong. And it's a little savage: yes, I will bid one dollar over you. Price will keep testing consumers after Barker takes his well-earned rest. And if he ever wants to get a glimpse of real America in his leisurely late mornings, he knows where to come on down...
English students looking to meet with a teaching fellow (TF) usually trek to the Barker Center. For psychology students, it’s William James Hall. For some students, the task may even require a trip to the graduate student dorms near the Radcliffe Yard...