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...Here at Harvard, William R. Kennan Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies Marjorie Garber is currently teaching “The Visual Animal”—a graduate seminar designing the General Education course on animals in literature, art, and popular culture to be offered next year. And Associate Professor of the History of Science Sarah Jansen launched a class on the history of dogs this semester...
...meet record by about a foot. With the work that he has gained in practice, we feel confident that he’s poised to have a great outdoor season.”Despite Weiler’s solid performance, the Harvard/Yale men finished one point behind their English counterparts, 10-9. For the first time since 1993, Oxford and Cambridge beat the American men. While Weiler has been jumping fairly consistently his entire freshman season, the young athlete attributed his strong showing at the HYOC competition to a series of great practices the week before...
...studied English at the University of Pennsylvania and Philip Roth was one of your professors. Wasn't law school a snore after that? No, law school was fantastic! I loved law school. I teach law now at Penn; I teach a course that I developed called Justice and Fiction. Law school is the most academically rigorous environment I've ever been in, and I just love that. The bottom line is, what you're talking about in law school is "What is justice?" That's what I'm writing about, too. What is right and wrong? What I like about...
...etymological examination further exposes meat as a decidedly non-gender-neutral term. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, "meat," in its slang usage, can refer to “the human body (esp. a woman’s body) regarded as an instrument of sexual pleasure,” as well as both female and male genitalia. The less academic, but no less authoritative Urban Dictionary defines meat as both sexual intercourse (with the charming example “I’d like to meet Jessica Alba and then meat her”) and as a derogatory term...
Marianne F. Kaletzky ’08, a former Crimson arts chair, grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She now lives in New Orleans and teaches high-school English in the Jefferson Parish public-school system...