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Earlier this month, Smith read alongside novelist Caryl Phillips in the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research at Harvard’s Black Writers Reading series in the Barker Center...
...Stuart,” the story she read at the Barker Center, a cheap shirt is “less subtle about body excretions,” and the guy who owns it “has a hard time with clothes in general; buying them, getting into them, getting out of them...
...campus-hopping tendencies sometimes outpace even his own encyclopedic self-awareness. In trying to arrange for a photo shoot, he says first that he could meet a photographer at Baker library, a Dartmouth building that sounds a lot like the Barker Center. He makes several more building-name blunders, but attributes this cloudiness to the late hour of the interview rather than the amalgamation of campus maps in his head...
...SMITH AND CARYL PHILLIPS. Smith, whose 2000 debut novel White Teeth was a bestseller, and novelist/playwright Phillips will read from their works. The event is part of a series of events with black writers sponsored by the Du Bois Institute. Wednesday, Feb. 12 at 4 p.m. Free. Thompson Room, Barker Center...
...despite Summers’ formal distance from the west wing of the Barker Center, the position of president carries with it one of the most potent bully pulpits in the nation. When Summers speaks on an issue, his views generally lead to wide reverberations without any formal exercise of authority. And he has spoken out more openly on more topics in the first 20 months of his presidency than his predecessor, Neil L. Rudenstine, did in a decade. “A president with a different style dating a faculty member might not have caused such anxiety...