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...Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67 opened his home to 12 freshmen for a lesson in home cooking—sustainable, vegetarian cooking adapted from the Harvard University Dining Services menu. Over fifty students requested to participate in the free, limited-space class that was organized by the HUDS Food Literacy Project (FLP) and the Freshman Dean’s Office. HUDS Executive Chef Lawrence R. Kessel and Currier Chef Christopher Tighe demonstrated a variety of cooking techniques that featured ingredients used by dining hall chefs. The menu: delicata squash with browned butter and sage (Harvard...
...hide specific SAT scores is advantageous is fundamentally incorrect. A major upside of requiring students to report all of their scores is that this dissuades students from retaking the test an excessive number of times. Presumably the College Board has been operating from the same misimpression as Harvard College Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons, who endorsed the new policy when he told the New York Times, “Score Choice will help defuse some of the pressure and give students a sense that not everything is riding on the tests, which really is the case.” Fitzsimmons...
...Leonard Rosenman, 83, was writing chamber music when a young actor named James Dean helped him get jobs writing the scores for East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause. He won Oscars in consecutive years for Barry Lyndon and Bound for Glory. Rosenman's themes for movies (Fantastic Voyage) and TV (Combat!) were more hummable than dramatic. It was just the opposite for the theme that Alexander Courage wrote for the original Star Trek series, or the jaunty whistling jingle that Earle Hagen composed for The Andy Griffith Show. (In a more serious, romantic vein, Hagen wrote Harlem Nocturne...
...Jorge I. Dominguez is the Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Vice-Provost for International Affairs, and Special Adviser to the FAS Dean for International Studies...
...School Dean Elena Kagan is in line to become Obama’s solicitor general, the third-ranking official in the Justice Department; former University President Lawrence H. Summers will lead his National Economic Council; Harvard Kennedy School professor John P. Holdren, an expert on climate change, will lead the administration’s science policy; and geneticist Eric S. Lander, the head of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute, will chair Obama’s science and technology advisory council...