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...English Department Chair James T. Engell ’73—who acknowledged that members of his humanities department were “relatively innocent of many of these financial conflicts of interest”—expressed concern that the wording of the draft was imprecise and left much room for interpretation...
According to Laura M. Waldon, the LGBT and Census on Campus Outreach Partnership Specialist for the Census Bureau’s Boston Regional Office, college students are among the populations that are most difficult to reach, along with non-English speaking people and those in trouble with the government...
...poet manages to represent the dialogue between David and the woman he loves with similar precision: “at the party, she said, / ‘I have an English father and an American mother.../ and at some point I had to choose, so I moved back to London and became the sort of person / who says puh-son instead of purr-son.” Hass carefully details the small stories of each of the characters who appear throughout his poems. This ability to create a convincing narrative seems to be, according to Hass, important for poets. After...
Concurrently, the English department is trying to make public speaking a “more central component” of undergraduate education, according to Kaiser...
There had been recent warnings that the Taliban would resume their campaign of terrorism against sensitive targets. On March 31, a militant identified as Qari Hussein - considered the head of the Taliban's squad of suicide bombers - told the English-language daily Dawn that the Taliban would "refresh memories of the attack on the Khost base" in Afghanistan, which left seven CIA agents dead. (See TIME columnist Robert Baer's assessment of the damage to the CIA after the Khost attack...