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...have that, there’s a big danger that you will get lost.”Ensuring a common theme means that team-teaching professors agree to agree, even when they disagree.When a disagreement occurs over lecture material in Science B-29, Hauser and Wrangham discuss after class and send a clarification e-mail if necessary. “We are one voice, if there’s a problem, we come back with one voice,” Hauser says.The professors in EPS 8 had “little back and forths” over such issues...
...trombone player,” McClintick quips.McClintick had gained access to Sinatra’s recording sessions, and news accounts from the 1980s said he might write a definitive biography of the singer. McClintick says his interest in Sinatra flourishes to this day, but he declines to discuss his future works.‘NOT AN ADVOCATE’McClintick cites Truman G. Capote, Gay Talese, and former Crimson associate managing editor J. Anthony Lukas ’55, as his models. And like the latter two, McClintick has left the daily grind of newspapering to pursue long-form narrative...
...proposition that could only be made in person. Just one day after Summers had submitted his formal resignation to the Corporation, Houghton called Bok to notify him that he and Keohane would travel to Florida to discuss the situation further. On Saturday, Feb. 18, Keohane and Houghton met Bok for a secret rendezvous in Sarasota, Fla. They explained the circumstances to the former president, outlined their expectations, and told Bok that he would only have to serve for, at most, one academic year...
...close to embarrassing ourselves,” says Peter K. Bol, the co-chair of the preliminary committee that first generated ideas for general education in 2004. Some professors say the review’s vision will emerge from the existing proposals once the full Faculty discusses them in depth. Others say they want to send the proposals back to the drawing board in order to produce a report that will redefine undergraduate education for the 21st century.As it stands, Harvard’s curricular review “puts us in line with many peer institutions, but it doesn?...
...undergoing its first renovations in over 50 years, University museums are desperate for space to house their collections. “There are real life pressures and intense motivations to keep Allston, University science planning, and cultural planning on track,” Provost Hyman says.Hyman and other administrators discuss interdisciplinary science in Allston with zeal, preaching the promise it holds for curing diseases such as diabetes and characterizing the University’s project there as part of a “moral duty.”“Many of the most pressing problems that face...