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Garber, who also directs Harvard's Humanities Center, has met with department faculty and staff several times since she was installed as chair. Garber is one of the world's foremost authorities on Shakespeare, but has no formal background in the visual arts...
...Perspective’s extra last week, outgoing President Neil L. Rudenstine recently told campaign members that it would take his successor a year or two to get “acclimated” to the issue. Apparently it will take one of the nation’s foremost economics minds at least a year to grasp the basics of a relatively straightforward proposal...
There are a few things in this world that warrant jeopardizing lucrative trade deals and access to a market of 1.2 billion people. Flagrant, frequent, unrepentant human rights violations are foremost among those reasons. Initiating periodic United Nations censures against China’s communist government is not enough. The U.S. must take a tougher stance on China and human rights. China’s entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO) should be conditional on a tangible improvement in the respect of human and minority rights. A U.N. monitoring team must also be allowed into Xinjiang and Tibet...
Brendel, 70, one of the world’s foremost Beethoven specialists, was in town for six concerts with the BSO and conductor Seiji Ozawa, featuring all five Beethoven piano concertos. After feeling pain in his arm, he cancelled the concerts scheduled for Saturday and last night and flew back to Munich to meet with his physician...
According to a Gallup poll being released by the National Marriage Project in June, 94% of single people in their 20s say that, first and foremost, they want their future spouse to be their "soul mate." But this concept of soul mates and the quest for perfection are what gets couples in trouble, says Iris Krasnow, author of Surrendering to Marriage. Krasnow taped hundreds of hours of interviews with married or formerly married couples. "You don't get sustained happiness from marriage, so if you expect this fantasy happiness, you're always going to be disappointed," she says. The couples...