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...Wheel-clamp. Dogs. Vagrants. A tour of our wonderful capital city is not to be missed. The Fergie, The Princess Di and the football hooligan." -Describing the state of the nation in 1989's Translating The English...
...physicist,” Videt has found a unique way to combine her seemingly irreconcilable interests in art and science. In order to help her test the boundaries between theater and physics, Videt designed a special concentration. She—advised by professors in both the English and physics department—is thus able to explore her fascination with expressing intellectual ideas through artistic means. “Harvard is a place where artists can flourish,” Videt says. “There might be this image that it’s not because there...
...Also visiting campus, however, were the Peace Corps, which places volunteers in developing countries to promote growth and peace; Education Services Overseas Ltd., which places American and British teachers in the Mediterranean, Middle East, and South Asia regions; and WorldTeach, which offers students a two-month opportunity to teach English in a developing country. That these service organizations were promoted alongside the more traditional e-recruiting companies merits praise...
...million of cost-reduction measures to be implemented over the next year. But for now, department leaders have expressed confusion regarding Smith’s call to restructure FAS.“I don’t know what on earth he means [by restructuring],” said English professor W. James Simpson. “Does it mean cutting certain programs? I’m worried that decisions of that kind will be extremely grave decisions that would be very disruptive.”John M. Duffy, chair of the classics department, said he is similarly unsure...
...career in writing was Ashbery’s calling. In high school, he wanted to be a painter, until he was awarded an anthology of twentieth-century poetry for winning an essay contest. Reading the work was a transformative experience, and he entered college determined to concentrate in English...