Word: formality
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Harvard science historian Allan M. Brandt said yesterday that he has been selected as the next dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. No formal announcement was made, but Brandt confirmed his selection in a brief telephone interview after The Crimson reported on the pick on its Web site. “I’m not going to have a comment until Dean Smith releases his formal announcement, which I expect to be soon,” Brandt said, declining to comment further. Brandt enters an office that has a rocky recent history. In February 2005, anthropologist...
...theater community here because of its unique dynamic. “There’s such a community because it’s extracurricular. Also, because of that, there’s a vitality and passion,” she says. “If there were a formal concentration or department, personally, I think it would create a weird dynamic.”Kaufman goes on to explain that there would be a hierarchy of those studying drama versus those choosing to study other fields, creating tension when allocating resources, such as performance space for productions. If the lack...
Arias attributes this in part to cultural differences: for instance, he recalls feeling out of place at Freshman Formal. “Almost everyone who was there rented or owned tuxedos...they were all really dressed up, and I didn’t even own a tux. It was just really strange,” Arias says...
Despite Cutler’s interest in health care economics and policy, no courses were offered in the subject during his time at Harvard. Cutler has no formal medical training, attributing his knowledge to “months and months in basements of libraries learning about medicine...
There was no formal response from the Pentagon. It is evident, however, that the U.S. military, already strained by wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, has no appetite for a third war. That's true even if a series of strikes against nuclear and other targets inside Iran were carried out by the Air Force and Navy, the two services who have sat, somewhat frustrated, on the sidelines as the Army and Marine Corps has done the heavy lifting in the two wars now under way. Some Pentagon officials welcomed the new NIE as evidence that the intelligence community...