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...Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)—the brainchild of Harvard professor emeritus Edward O. Wilson—launched its first 30,000 entries yesterday, making a small dent in the 1.8 million species the online database intends to chronicle...
...idea of “color-blind” casting is a controversial one in the larger theatrical world. August Wilson, the African-American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, argued that ethnic experiences are distinct and unique, and therefore cannot be successfully intertwined onstage. By contrast, Professor of English, Emeritus, theatre critic, and playwright Robert S. Brustein, contended that racial issues could be resolved onstage when he stated that “theater works best as a unifying rather than a segregating medium.” This discussion is missing at Harvard. The theater scene still does not involve nearly...
...students take a secondary field or a certificate for the wrong reason—their resume. In truth, that extra line on your resume will matter far less than having enjoyed and profited from your classes in college. Adam M. Guren ’08, a Crimson editorial chair emeritus, is an economics concentrator in Eliot House...
...family's flour mills and he was imprisoned in a labor camp, he escaped to spend two years battling the SS in the forests of Poland. Lerman, who immigrated to the U.S. in 1947, helped plan and found the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington and became its chairman emeritus. He also met with Pope John Paul II and other leaders and spearheaded the effort to dedicate a memorial at the Belzec camp in Poland, where his mother died...
...know is, Why? What makes us go so loony over love? Why would we bother with this elaborate exercise in fan dances and flirtations, winking and signaling, joy and sorrow? "We have only a very limited understanding of what romance is in a scientific sense," admits John Bancroft, emeritus director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind., a place where they know a thing or two about the way human beings pair up. But that limited understanding is expanding. The more scientists look, the more they're able to tease romance apart into its individual strands--the visual, auditory, olfactory...