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...Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta From its titillating title, I expect the book will feature hoards of sexed-up teenagers and one hyper-conscious adult fighting to bring to them a sense of moral enlightenment. The cover is a picture of a green chalk board, on which two chalk birds and several chalk bees are drawn. Judging by this punny picture, this book should be entertaining, light, and full of those awkward “birds-and-the-bees” moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus...
...incident was one of many that Conti-Brown says made him even more self-conscious about his relatively disadvantaged economic background. “At every turn I was expecting that there would be code words I wouldn’t understand or expectations I wouldn’t get,” Conti-Brown recalls. “I was always on guard...
...Sciences (FAS) consists mostly of professors with tenure or those who are on the path to tenure. “It’s quite the opposite at Harvard,” said Brian W. Casey, the FAS associate dean for academic affairs. “There was a conscious decision around the year 2000 to expand the tenured ranks.” Tenured or tenure-track professors make up 62 percent of the Faculty at Harvard. Though Harvard might claim to contradict the study’s trend, John W. Curtis, one of the report’s authors...
...Harvard’s planners. Although the deal is now signed, Harvard’s commitment to the community, including the residents of Charlesview, has not disappeared. We hope that, in the coming months and years, the University continues to build its new campus in Allston in a socially-conscious manner that benefits everyone...
...reappearance raises many questions. Not least among them: how does a man suffering from amnesia for such a long stretch suddenly become conscious that he is a missing person? And why would his vital details, which had ostensibly eluded him for so long, suddenly come rushing back? Dr. Ashok Jansari, an expert in the neuropsychology of memory at the University of East London, says, "It's perfectly possible that during a boating accident he suffered a head injury and developed some amnesia as a result of that." He added Darwin could be suffering from a mixture of organic amnesia, which...