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...decade, you've got about five movie projects signed up. How did you find the time to start a trilogy of vampire novels? I started it actually about four years ago. The idea behind The Strain was to try and marry old Eastern European folklore with an urban procedural feel. Which is very much the way, back in the day, Dracula must have read to contemporary readers. It was a very now, in the moment, modern novel. And I wanted to recapture that a little...
...Hammonds’ first year in office draws to a close, students and House officials say they still do not know who this intensely private leader is and feel she is disconnected from the undergraduate experience and unresponsive to their concerns...
Regardless of the outcome, the journey has been exhilarating, and through it I feel an emotional connection to the cosmos that I don’t think I could have acquired any other way. My intuition tells me that this particular odyssey will arrive at a promised land, perhaps confirming today’s theoretical insights, perhaps in a future form that will have evolved significantly. But if not, in the unlikely event that the work on which our generation has labored doesn’t make it into textbooks, I can live with that. It’s what...
...Carnegie Hall once. This heightened modesty is good in the sense that it minimizes arrogance, but it is damaging in so far as it undermines individuals’ self-confidence and keeps them from even trying in the first place. The sheer sense of intimidation that many freshmen feel is incredible, and Harvard does not do enough to help students learn that it is okay to make mistakes. The exploration and risk-taking that should occur do not; GPA and perceptions matter and stifle openness...
...named the “top” expert, by virtue of being the expert at Harvard—sometimes makes us fear to question each other. Both faculty and administrators often make decisions that affect the state of knowledge and the functioning of the university, and I often feel that the explanation has not been made clear, that asking questions—particularly of the administration—is regarded as unfriendly. In fact, some in the current administration respond constructively to such queries, but that fact does not erase the historical ethos left by centuries of hierarchy...