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...Near East and East Asia couldn’t be farther apart—at least according to Fifteen Minutes’ first annual rankings of Harvard’s 40 undergraduate concentrations. Near Eastern Languages and Civilization was the top-ranked concentration while East Asian Studies came in last...
...overthrow was set in motion on April 11 after Ch?vez-funded militiamen opened fire on 300,000 protesters backing a general strike, as they marched toward the presidential palace. Fifteen were killed. Generals in the armed forces began renouncing the President on television. The military high command took Ch?vez into custody and pressured him to resign. He refused, but the generals told the media he had stepped down. Washington chose to believe it. In a press conference the next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer acknowledged the transition government headed by Carmona, president of Venezuela?s largest business association...
...Well I’ve been collecting the data off and on for some twenty years. Actual writing—well, I’ve been invited by many universities to give papers on this, so I began writing maybe at least ten or fifteen years ago. Then I was asked to give the Nobel lectures at Harvard, and then I was asked to give some lectures at Oxford University on Freud and Lewis and this helped crystallize some of my thinking. And then somebody sent a set of my lectures to Simon & Schuster without my knowing it, and they...
...policy researchers and journalists alike. Back in 1991, a photo of a mural crew at work in Dorchester made the front page of the Boston Globe. That particular project, only the second that Schork directed, used a geometric style of South African wall painting to incorporate the names of fifteen young men killed in gang violence. The result, Schork recalls, meant both positive attention for the muralists, almost entirely young women, and a meaningful piece of public...
Hurlbut’s Fun Drawer file from 1907 contains a letter from Francis Call Woodman to a Mr. Greene concerning a conversation Woodman had with a fifteen year-old boy on his college prospects...