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...projects,” King said during the committee’s presentation. King referred to Kirby’s push to grow the Faculty from 635 professors in 2002 to 750 by 2010, as well as to building projects that include the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), the new Hasty Pudding Theatre, and the North Yard science complex.King said recently that “I mostly tell people not to worry” about FAS finances “because there are very responsible people taking care of it.”Yet some professors, such...
...play in Asia in the coming century. Relations between the two nations “have never been stronger,” U.S. Ambassador to Japan J. Thomas Schieffer said yesterday. In his first university visit since his appointment, Schieffer addressed a full audience in the Tsai Auditorium in CGIS South. Schieffer discussed the major political, economic, and diplomatic changes taking place in Japan and the role America has played in them. “We are a Pacific nation,” he said, citing the enduring interest the U.S. will have in Japan’s sphere...
...Retouched: The Photographs of Baldomero Alejos” is open until June 1, 2006 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies in the CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street and at the Center for Latino Arts, 85 W. Newton Street, Boston...
Douglas E. Lieb ’07, a member of a Social Studies tutorial that meets every week in CGIS, mentioned ongoing painting projects as an occasional distraction, but said he was satisfied with the CGIS complex as a whole...
...CGIS, made up of the Knafel Building and the still-unnamed South Building, has been beset by difficulties throughout its short lifespan. Initially, disputes erupted between the City of Cambridge and the University over the planned location of the complex, and its effect on the areas around it. Original designs for a tunnel connecting the two buildings under the street were abandoned after they met with fierce local opposition that drove the price tag up by $10 million—a sum the College deemed unreasonable...