Word: brenner
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...microphone, a camera and a polarizing host are all it takes to get the money moving. Because audiences have been so widely fragmented by the new technology, ratings that would have gotten a talk-show host canceled in the late 1980s create a superstar today. (In 1987 comedian David Brenner bombed in syndication with about 2.5 million viewers at midnight - which is roughly what Fox, the leading network for political talk shows, averages in prime time...
...announcement came yesterday from the office of Frans A. Spaepen—the SEAS interim dean and the sole figure responsible for selecting Brenner—who said that Brenner was an obvious choice for the position because he currently occupies a central role in the College’s applied math program...
...Brenner will fill a position whose function unifies previously dissociated roles within the school. Speaking of the new office, Spaepen said, “These duties in fact were distributed to a whole lot of people, but many were left to [Brenner] as well...
...steward of what he calls “Harvard’s quantitative liberal arts degree,” Brenner has overseen significant growth in a program home to a diverse body of undergraduates...
...Brenner himself expressed enthusiasm for the prospect of centralizing his discipline on campus, noting, “The great thing about Applied Math at Harvard is that it exists everywhere...