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...take effect until late next semester.Theda Skocpol then reported on developments at the Graduate School of Arts Sciences, which she heads.Professors applauded when Skocpol announced that funding for dissertation completion fellowships had been found for all of the more than 160 graduate students qualifying for them—in contrast, she said, to last year, when not all of the 120 qualifying graduate students received funding.Skocpol talked for more than five minutes, thanking professors for their assistance throughout this academic year, her first as dean.“I have had enormous pleasure to go out across departments...
...portraits, including paintings of five U.S. presidents and the Treasury Department’s portrait of Summers, according to the painter’s website.The portrait unveiled yesterday is more than four feet tall and depicts a vibrant-looking Rudenstine wearing a bright red robe—in contrast with the mostly subdued colors of the paintings that line the walls of the Faculty Room.“He did exactly what I hoped: no black background, no black robe,” Rudenstine said after his speech.LOOMING DECISIONSRudenstine said in a brief interview that he would not advise...
...turned out, Folds more than met expectations, interacting with the audience, jumping on top of the piano to lead crowd choral participation, and then, after playing for longer than scheduled, even returning for an encore. Contrast this to the (also free) Busta Rhymes show two years back when Busta showed up so late that a decent portion of the crowd had already left for home and then walked off the stage as soon as his 90 minutes were...
...hour boat trip from the mainland. According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over the age of five willing to admit that control of Dokdo does not matter." By contrast, says Hideshi Takesada, a professor of Korean politics at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies, "most people in Japan have no knowledge of the issue," and little appreciation of how deep Korean resentment runs...
...Minister to the Court of St. James taught the British to play draw poker and then cheated them out of millions. All were political figures, not professional diplomats. The U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corps until the early 20th century. Many Americans remain ambivalent about it, in contrast to other professions like the military. It is hard to imagine the American people tolerating a high number of four-star generals and admirals being named from the ranks of campaign contributors, even in peacetime...