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...President Lawrence H. Summers, he set out to transform the provostship into a driving force for interdisciplinary reform. Taking office “with an understanding that the job was going to change,” Hyman told The Crimson, “I understood we were...going to expand far beyond Neil Rudenstine’s five initial cross-disciplinary initiatives, and we’ve done that. Disciplinary boundaries are breaking down everywhere.” Hyman’s efforts, though, have occasionally met with resistance from what he calls an “inward-looking, conservative?...
...stances on abortion, contraception and stem-cell research are deplorable and, because of his authority, extremely harmful to many innocent people. Since Islam shares many of his mistaken values, we should fear that he will use any successful contacts made during his visit to Turkey to expand the influence (and harm) of his moral mistakes. Gerald H. Paske Wichita, Kansas...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced his decision to expand the faculty by 10 percent, from 635 professors to 700, by 2010. His successor, William C. Kirby, accelerated the plan in 2002, promising to increase the faculty to 750 by 2010. There are already over 700 professors...
...winding down at the end of October,” he said, adding that College admissions officers will be travelling with Princeton and the University of Virginia, which have both also given up early admission. Fitzsimmons said the additional travel time will allow his office to “expand horizons” and visit schools that rarely or never send students to Harvard. “We have a search list of around 80,000 promising students and with more time we can tap into some of those students from those high schools that almost never send people...
...Sonic Youth—The single “Incinerate” is admittedly catchy, but anything by SY just gives me flashbacks to those days I was peer-pressured into listening to “Daydream Nation” on loop in an attempt to “expand my mind.” ^_^ 2. “Boys and Girls in America” by The Hold Steady—Being only 16, I have never set foot in an establishment that serves alcohol and don’t really understand this concept...