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Capturing the Moment As a man, I know I'm not supposed to shed tears except for deaths in the family, but I've got to admit that reading Nancy Gibbs' article on Barack Obama in this week's commemorative issue made my eyes misty [Nov. 17]. These were tears not of sorrow but of sheer appreciation for a wonderfully expressed essay about this transcendent moment in American history. Hervie Haufler, Shelburne...
...know I'm not supposed to shed tears except for deaths in the family, but I've got to admit that reading Nancy Gibbs' article on Barack Obama in this week's commemorative issue made my eyes misty [Nov. 17]. These were tears not of sorrow but of sheer appreciation for a wonderfully expressed essay about this transcendent moment in American history. Hervie Haufler, SHELBURNE...
...During the Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught...
...current and proposed staff searches and any creation of new administrative positions have been put on hold—except for “critical” positions that FAS is willing to fill and pay for with funds created by cuts in expenses elsewhere, according to an e-mailed statement from Smith...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—the unit of Harvard that grants Ph.D.s—and at the schools of dentistry, design, education, government, law, medicine, and public health. But the number of white men exceeds the number of white women at all graduate schools except in the schools of divinity, education, and public health. When asked about this trend, Russian studies professor Terry Martin said that rise in the number of women has been “quite dramatic” in his own field. “Out of the eight Ph.D. students I work...