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Clinching what Reid Professor of English Philip J. Fisher called "the single most important appointment in literature at Harvard in the past 15 years," one of the country's foremost Shakespeare scholars accepted tenure at Harvard this week...
According to Fisher, Greenblatt has become a generational icon in literary studies, in part because of his work as founder and editor of "Representations," a Berkeley journal...
...simplest way to put it is that he's the single leading literary scholar of his generation," Fisher said. "He's a person who in the outer world really stands for English studies in this generation...
...Harvard is a university that has usually had several great Shakespeareans at a time," Fisher said. "These are two great innovators here, and it's very unusual to have that...
Barbie may not be everyone's favorite companion--detractors love to hate her plastic perfection--but the fashion doll with the impossible figure has long been the most popular girl at Mattel. The world's No. 1 toymaker, whose products range from Fisher-Price infant and preschool toys to Disney-licensed characters, gets more than one-third of its nearly $4 billion in sales from the 11 1/2-in.-tall mannequin. Now Barbie, who at age 37 has become the best-selling girls' brand ever, is poised to strut into, and perhaps change forever, the male-dominated world of multimedia software...