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...Harvard officials trailing Faust down Quincy Street on their way to the news conference, church bells began to ring.On the short walk to Barker, Faust emphasized her roots as a professor and an academic, telling reporters that she’d spent the morning preparing questions for her Civil War class because she knew the afternoon would be too hectic.“You can tell [my students] I’ll be prepared,” she said.As members of the press hurried into the ornate Thompson Room, a few students and professors hesitantly followed, hoping to witness...
...veteran academic and Civil War historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust was offered the presidency earlier this week by the six fellows of the Harvard Corporation, the University's executive governing body. She is expected to begin her term in office on July...
...reporter asks Faust how she will pursue her passion in history. Faust responds that she will not be able to do significant scholarly work while she is president. But Faust says she hopes to be able to continue to teach her conference course on the Civil War this spring...
...small sampling of Faust’s bibliography will unavoidably elicit snickers from those outside the confines of the Academy: “The Rhetoric and Ritual of Agriculture in Antebellum South Carolina,” “The Civil War Soldier and the Art of Dying,” and the above-mentioned “Altars of Sacrifice...
...hearts that have been broken, and the young lives that could have been. America, it's time to start bringing our troops home. It's time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else's civil war. That's why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008. Letting the Iraqis know that we will not be there forever is our last, best hope to pressure the Sunni and Shia to come to the table and find peace...