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...imagine for a moment what the rallying cry of an English Ph.D student might be: "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing...For how do I hold thee but by thy granting...
...said that the changes were not prompted by “a sense of crisis about numbers declining or anything like that,” noting that the department has seen a stable 12 to 20 concentrators per class in recent years.The Classics department joins Harvard’s English and history departments in revising concentration requirements to make them more flexible. The Classics department will continue to require one semester-long sophomore tutorial on classical civilization. It is also reviving a required junior research tutorial that will prepare students to write theses.The two new tracks will require relatively...
House: Leverett Concentration: English Hometown: Dracut, Mass. Ideal Date: Anything involving the Big Cookie at Uno’s. What you look for in a girl/guy: High school drama. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Fantasizing about my days at Studio 54 in the early ’80s. Your best pick up line: Want to take the long way home? Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: This one time, when I was hooking up with this girl at BU... Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: It wasn?...
...vision of Islam's ancient tenets and current tendencies. Called 111 Questions on Islam, it is the translation of a book-length interview two Italian journalists conducted with Samir in 2002 in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The priest says that in reviewing the material before the English-language release, he was struck by how little there was to update. "The major points that I laid out are the same today, after more than six years," Samir told TIME in a telephone interview. "This means the problems that we face with Islam continue to be more or less...
Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism James Wood and Visiting Lecturer on English Claire Messud represent two different ends of the literary world. One is an incisive critic, the other is a renowned author. And they’re married. FM caught up with them—as well as their five-year-old son, Lucien, out of school for a sick day—to discuss literature, criticism, and Harvard’s social scene.1. Fifteen Minutes: I notice you both teach class from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Mondays; do you carpool?Claire Messud...