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HOME ADDRESS: 3035 Dumbarton Ave., N. W., Washington...
...will lead a seminar on "Women in the Byzantine Empire" next fall at Dumbarton Oaks. Harvard's center for Byzantine studies in Washington, D.C., which will share Laiou's joint appointment with the History department...
Giles Constable, professor of History and director of Dumbarton Oaks, yesterday declined to comment on what role Laious will play at his center because the Corporation has yet to approve the selection. However, he called Laiou "without question one of the most original and interesting scholars" in the field
President Bok let himself in for the wrath of tree lovers the world over when he okayed the use of Dumbarton Oaks, the plush Harvard-owned estate outside Washington, for a wedding reception for Rep. John Brademas '49 (D-Ind.), the House majority whip. Despite the fact that large garden parties are bad for the estate's famous tree-lined garden. Bok apparently felt that Brademas--a former Overseer and close friend of "Harvard's Congressman," Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.--could be trusted not to import a pack of restless dachsunds. "We figured, what the heck, it wasn...
...reception, held at Dumbarton Oaks, a Harvard-owned research facility in Washington, was organized by a Washington committee of local supporters of the library...