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“There are like 10 jobs in the world a year that I would apply for,” says Douglas Finkbeiner, who joined the Harvard faculty this year as an assistant professor of astronomy. “It’s hard to get one job and...
With reporting by Douglas Waller/Washington
While some of the Houses have stuck with the tried and true this holiday season—with dining halls adorned in colored lights, tinsel, wreaths, and ribbons—Cabot House has outdone them all with a nine-foot aluminum pole. The unadorned pole is one of the many...
General Douglas MacArthur—hoping to drive a hole in Japan’s southeastern flank—landed his forces at Leyte Island in the Philippines on Oct. 20, 1944, a date which he declared “A-Day” (Dwight Eisenhower had already laid claim...
The Pentagon rumor mill is also abuzz with the question of whom Gates will choose to replace Army Gen. John Abizaid as chief of Central Command, the region that includes both Iraq and Afghanistan. Abizaid and Army Gen. George Casey, the ground commander in Iraq, have overseen the war for...