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...version of a Harvard admissions booklet: a perfect mix of men, women, young adults, whites, blacks, Latinos, and Asians, each from a different state in our beautiful Union, who would represent the Party this summer on stage at the convention. Alternatively, I pictured a contest hosted by Howard Dean to choose which delegates looked best in “Superman” costumes, the winner of which would escort the Democratic nominee around Denver...
...rebellion against the redbrick regime, such as some of the modernist housing built in the last half century (Mather, the Leverett Towers, and New Quincy) and, most markedly, the Science Center, but these reflect Harvard’s history, too: the Science Center was designed by a former dean of the Design School who also designed Holyoke Center. Even these concrete behemoths are products of the University’s cultural transformation itself, not attempts at mimicry...
Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise will assume additional duties as Interim Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) beginning in March, according to a statement circulated by FAS Dean Michael D. Smith on Wednesday. While Scalise will continue to oversee the athletic department even after taking on his new duties in University Hall, he said he was not concerned about the prospect of holding down two jobs at once. “I have a good team here in place in Athletics,” he said, “and I feel confident that they...
...That is not unprecedented. It has echoes of Howard Dean's 2004 primary effort, although in Dean's case the propellant was substance, not rhetoric - the candidate's early courageous voice against the war. But Dean soon found that wasn't enough. In June 2003 he told me he needed to broaden his movement, reach out past the young and the academic and find a greater array of issues that could inspire working people. He never quite found that second act, and his campaign became about process, not substance: the hundreds of thousands of supporters signing up on the Internet...
Because of an editing error, the original version of this story distorted Joe Klein's characterization of Howard Dean's 2004 primary effort. A sentence in the third paragraph has been changed accordingly...