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Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt were present to welcome the newcomers: former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences dean Peter T. Ellison, former History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, zoologist Farish A. Jenkins Jr., former Earth and Planetary Science department chair Michael B. McElroy, and former Classics department chair Richard J. Tarrant...

Author: By Benjamin M. Jaffe and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faculty Council Welcomes Five New Members at First Meeting of the Year | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...when he began basically working part-time, with most of his week spent in the state capital. He had been reluctant to take the University of Chicago job in the first place, planning to do community work and write a book on civil rights law. But Douglas Baird, then chair of the law school's faculty appointments committee, convinced Obama to take a two-year post as a law and government fellow, promising him an office and time to work on his first book. Baird figured that "he'd be around, in case we could persuade him. [Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Professor Obama's Class | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...channel positive energy, delivers a meandering speech on the danger of devils and the love of Christ and of Sandino, while sitting in front of psychedelic painting of an eyeball in the center of a hand surrounded by snakes - a colorful mural painted by Murillo behind Ortega's chair in Sandinista headquarters, to protect him from evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rewriting the Book of Daniel | 9/10/2008 | See Source »

...James M. Larkin ’10, a Crimson associate editorial chair, is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: Jesus is My Running Mate | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

...enlightening...” he said. “We’d have to understand more of what the senator is considering.” Harvard’s ballooning endowment has put it at the center of the school spending debate since Grassley and Senate Finance Committee chair Max Baucus first raised the issue last year. At $34.9 billion as of June 2007, Harvard boasts the largest endowment in higher education. Grassley has criticized colleges and universities for “hoarding” growing endowment returns instead of spending more on financial aid. But he did praise...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Senator Grassley Tones Down Threats on Endowment Spending | 9/9/2008 | See Source »

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