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With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members amidst the stately decor of the Plimpton Room of the Humanities Center. Armantrout, whose newest collection of poems, “Verse,” will be published in February, decided to make a stop at Harvard yesterday after touring much of New England, for readings as well as personal travel. The event was described...
...first of these changes is the departure of Jeff Orleans as executive director of the Ivy Group of Presidents—the closest thing the Ivy League has to a commissioner. Orleans, most famous for his role in the drafting and implementation of Title IX, was appointed to the post in 1984 as the organization’s first full-time director. The context then was one of turmoil. The Ivy League had just walked away from Division I-A football during the split into two divisions, choosing instead to remain in the newly formed Division I-AA, where...
...Notre Dame, and Michigan less able to stockpile talented players, as they had in the past. The resulting trickle-down effect of talent has meant that upsets are more likely within Division I-A, as well as in matchups between Division I-A and I-AA squads (the most famous example being Appalachian State’s stunning upset of Michigan last season). These changes in college football’s talent distribution seem to have helped academically strong schools at that level...
...Name a famous John. MTH: Staff, Harvard, Hancock ABC: Staff, Harvard, Adams TJ: Harvard, Kerry, Edwards NAN: Adams, Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Harvard MMP: Staff, Harvard, Parilo FM: What’s the number one thing you would change about Harvard? MTH: Cable, dining hall hours, section ABC: 24-hour dining halls, soft serve ice cream machines instead of soft severe froyo TJ: Winter, Quad, nothing at all NAN: Location, scheduling of classes on Fridays MMP: Weather, more social space, location...
Rajaram's had been something of an immigrant-American success story. Born in India, he grew up in Bangalore and graduated in 1985 from the now famous Indian Institute of Technology in Chennai (formerly Madras). He went to Los Angeles to earn an M.B.A. from UCLA before working at Sony Pictures from 1989 to 1994, according to a company spokesman. He went on to serve in a small consulting group within PricewaterhouseCoopers dedicated to strategy and operational consulting for motion-picture companies. He left in 1999 to join EHS Partners, a start-up consulting firm. A 2001 story...