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...avid reader of books and articles on a variety of topics ranging from art to politics to science, Pinker finds stimulation in more departments than his own. The opportunity Harvard offers to be interdisciplinary is a boost to creative energy. “I write these long sprawling books that cover everything from war to art to religion to brain science. Being in a place that has experts in all those fields is a real attraction...
Junior Marc Hordon—who missed all of last season due to shoulder surgery—was expected to provide a tremendous boost to this year’s staff. However, he has still not made a full recovery, and his role is uncertain...
Just down the river, Harvard is working on plans to boost its faculty by approximately 10 percent, according to Dean William C. Kirby’s annual letter two weeks...
...years he put up with her countless career changes (what ever happened to the malt shop?), freakish feet and pesky little sister Skipper. And now BARBIE has dumped KEN like a piece of plastic. Apparently hoping a little Bennifer-style drama will boost flagging doll sales, Mattel announced at last week's Toy Fair that the never married couple "feel it's time to spend some quality time--apart." And just so every little girl could have the chance to playact the relationship dissolution and subsequent self-loathing of her dreams, Mattel even introduced a third party, buff Australian surfer...
...last year, dispirited Democrats in the Senate "were ready to drink hemlock," as a top aide put it. Republicans had given President Bush a major boost by passing his Medicare-reform and prescription-drug bill. Minority leader Tom Daschle was under fire for caving in to the hardball parliamentary tactics used by the Republicans to steamroller Democratic objections...