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...theater circuit where everyone is about the same age, Barry A. Shafrin ’09 is often cast in younger roles—and it’s easy to see why: with boyish features, a slender build, and an open, charming smile, he exudes youth. But in the world of Harvard drama, Shafrin is anything but green...
...create sets. “I think the most remarkable thing about Ben is that he’s so talented at so many things,” says Sara E.A. Mills ’11, who worked with Clark on a variety of productions. Beyond his ability to build and organize a set, Clark is also a talented actor. Though he has acted in seven plays, which amounts to a fairly substantial Harvard acting career, Clark nonchalantly downplays his achievement. “I tend to always play the same character,” he says...
...de’ Medici in 1444, was created as power publicity, as a means of instituting the Medici’s dominance in Florence. Even the Library of Alexandria was not born out of benevolence. Ptolemy Soter starved out Athens until it relinquished its knowledge to his desires to build the greatest library ever, a repository of humanity’s cultural production that would endow his Alexandria with the wisdom of the world. While scholars from throughout the world were allowed to come and study at the library, texts were not to be shared with other countries. The Ptolemies...
...that judging from his interactions with members of FAS IT, the technicians wanted to keep e-mail in-house.“A lot of these people don’t want to see the mail outsourced. They want to do it themselves because they feel like they could build something that is better, but they don’t have the funding to do it,” says Kroll. “And it’s not even that the fault is at the top. I think people like [Associate Dean for IT and FAS IT Chief...
...seek to eliminate faculty positions if the Faculty does not shrink enough through attrition.Smith said in a recent interview that he would not replace retiring professors by default, but rather “take that as an opportunity” to rethink where else he might want to build faculty.English professor Louis Menand said that the administration may discuss the possibility of merging some humanities departments to be able to let go of professors more directly.“The only way you can fire people who are tenured is to close the department,” Menand said.In...