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...Bois Institute for African and African-American Research.“This is a great day for Harvard,” Alphonse Fletcher Jr. ’87, who endowed the position, wrote in an e-mail.“I can’t think of a finer recipient of a University Professorship than Henry Louis Gates,” Fletcher said. “Working productively with three Harvard presidents, his collaboration with so many scholars, in so many fields, touching so many students and influencing the world well beyond the academy exemplifies what’s best...
...carnival of penises and vaginas, and you’ll find out what makes for a stable relationship (apparently, it's not just sex). You'll even learn exciting new words, like "tribadism" (Google it!). Section discussion runs from "frank" to "raunchy" as people open up on the finer points of love, gender, and anal sex. As taught by Rodriguez, this class was a definite gut. The TFs were far too kind and laid-back to care about a late paper here or there (We wonder why they were so relaxed?), and the papers were on sex-related topics...
...this sounds like he-said, she-said for the paleoanthropological crowd, you're not far off. The two sides quickly descend from debating the finer points of human fossils to slagging off on each other's ethics. Brown has accused Teuku Jacob - the lead author of the PNAS paper and one of Indonesia's most venerable anthropologists - of removing the fossils from their legal depository and damaging them while attempting to make a copy. Jacob has denied the charges in the past, and Thorne takes umbrage at the accusations. "This is a very senior academic," he says of Jacob. "This...
...portraits, described a country resigned to a downward spiral in his classic book, The Italians. Barzini paints his people as peddlers of "ruses to defeat boredom and discipline, to forget disgrace and misfortune, to lull man's angst to sleep and comfort him in his solitude." Severgnini uses much finer brushstrokes in his interpretation of Italians' shortcomings, which borders on praise. In Crema, where he's still based, he pauses in his tour to point out the different shades of the cathedral's stonework: "It has taken seven centuries to produce this imperfection, which echoes the equally fascinating imperfection...
...stamp out jaywalking, thousands of volunteers have signed up to monitor the city's crosswalks. SCC officials have visited schools and universities to recruit whistleblowers. Public awareness is improving dramatically. The finer legal points-such as how to handle pedestrians caught midstreet when the light changes-are now debated in Internet chatrooms...