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...with no senior faculty searches on the horizon, this figure??about half the average over the last 10 years—marks a dramatic shift from what Faust termed in a recent interview as the Faculty’s “very fast” growth...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences cautioned yesterday that it was still too early to state how many staffers are participating in its early retirement incentive program, leaving the figure??which will be crucial in making determinations about possible layoffs—a mystery as the 45-day window for deciding on the package came to a close...
...like, share a room?” I ask. “Bunk beds?” Caleb laughs at me. “It’s not like we’re sleeping in the same bed.” The job of being a political figure??s body man requires, first and foremost, discretion, and Caleb refuses to give me more than the vaguest outline of what he does each day. He never says where Rove’s office is located or how many people work with him in total. When...
...Rowling follows in a disturbing trend in recent commencement picks. It’s universally recognized that only a world figure??political or diplomatic, that is—could possibly be worthy of the lectern in Tercentenary Theatre and the Harvard doctorate that goes with it. However, not since U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan addressed the plenum in 2004 has a man of suitable credentials been chosen. Each of us has sacrificed time and treasure to make it to the end of our Harvard careers, and so the choice of an overpaid peddler of the prepubescent equivalent...
...faculty and students were invited. Matory remembers that the couple would occasionally host meetings of faculty members at their home, and that they were “very warm and hospitable.” Professor of Anthropology Theodore C. Bestor said Maybury-Lewis was a “towering figure?? in his field. Despite his brilliance, he remained accessible to students, who “came to adore...