Word: derring
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...DER HEYDTThrough these last few years of transition at Harvard, a corrosive notion has been seeping into the groundwater: the idea that a “global university” should focus relatively less of its intellectual energy on the United States. To those who consider this country an experiment in noble and complex human principles, this way of thinking is merely disagreeable. But academic faux-cosmopolitanism is also just untrue: the U.S. is itself the keystone of any viable account of globalization. If anything, intellectual engagement with American public affairs should now be more, not less, central to Harvard?...
...Iranian city of Bam, which, on Dec. 26, 2003 - exactly a year before the Indonesian tsunami - was leveled by an earthquake. Of the 100,000 inhabitants, 30,000 died. The rest were left to flee, or live in rubble. In the poignant Voices of Bam, Dutch filmmakers Mariana Van Der Horst and Maasja Ooms patrol the devastated town and tiptoe into the minds of those who remain; the survivors speak, in poetic voiceover, of the family, the wives and lovers who live only in their memories, haunt their days and dreams...
...presented for higher review by an ad hoc committee. “I think generally, larger departments make better appointments, because there’s a much greater variety of opinions about a given candidate,” says Sanskrit and Indian Studies Chair Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp. —Emily J. Nelson contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...Alesina and Martin. But Summers also has to make decisions about cases in other fields.“To what degree can a president make a decision about people in areas about which he really knows nothing?” asks Sanskrit and Indian Studies ChairLeonard W.J. van der Kuijp. “A humbling moment should take place, so then I believe the president will have closely to read what the ad hoc committee has to say and also look very closely at the files of the person who’s being brought up for tenure: It requires...
...read poetry last night. Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti received the New England Poetry Club’s (NEPC) annual Golden Rose prize and read his work to a packed Yenching Auditorium audience in an event co-sponsored by the NEPC and Harvard’s Signet Society. NEPC president Diana Der-Hovanessian called Ferlinghetti “a vital voice” and an “American conscience” as she awarded him the Golden Rose. The award has been presented since 1920 to the writer deemed by the NEPC to have had the greatest influence on American poetry...