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...hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened - supposing we were knocked right out. Think of all the chaps who've gone already. It can't be very lonely there - with all those fellows. Sometimes I think it's lonelier here...
...average Harvard student perhaps unfortunately familiar with Two-Buck Chuck and jugs of vinegary reds, this is an education of a different sort...
...those willing to spring for something more than Two-Buck Chuck, the Harvard Bartending Course is bringing back its wine-tasting course, which last ran in spring 2005, according to the manager of the bar course, Julius D. Krein...
...position of provost was created under former University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28. When Pusey assumed the presidency in 1953, Provost Paul Buck, who was serving concurrently as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, stepped down, and the position went vacant for almost forty years. Former University President Neil L. Rudenstine reinstated the post when he took over in 1991. [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
CORRECTION Due to an editing error, the Feb. 22 news article "Hyman Will Remain Provost" incorrectly stated that the position of provost was created under former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28. In fact, it was President James B. Conant '14 who appointed Harvard's first provost, Paul Buck...