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...those closest to Hoffmann—presumably the ones whose names he remembers—will gather today for a symposium celebrating his 80 years, 54 of which he has spent teaching at Harvard. The event—sponsored by the Center for European Studies, the Department of Government, and the provost’s office—will feature talks by Hoffmann’s colleagues and former students...
...what ties the book together is Fisher's struggle with addiction and manic depression. Wishful Drinking is her attempt to gather up a lifetime of memories scattered by electroshock therapy. At one point, she describes being admitted to a locked ward during a psychotic episode. She signed her commitment papers with a single word: shame. It's one of the few paragraphs in Wishful Drinking that doesn't contain a punch line; only when she writes about her brushes with madness does Fisher drop her manic stand-up shtick and let us see, for a moment, what it's there...
...search for the new superintendent of the Cambridge Public Schools kicked off this week with a series of public forums to gather input for establishing recruitment criteria...
After getting his degree, Michael E. Kopko ’07 did what many recent college grads do—packed up his stuff and moved into an even smaller living space in New York. However, instead of choosing (selling his soul to) Goldman Sachs, he decided to gather some of his friends from high school and start his own company: GradeFund.com. GradeFund connects college students to sponsors who pay them for their good grades. Potential sponsors range from parents to prospective employers. People who pay you to get good grades? Sounds like parents...awesome parents. And this isn?...
...Both sides can play the opportunism game, of course. A week later, in Ramadi, I saw tribal sheiks gather to support Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Status of Forces Agreement he has negotiated with the U.S. A couple of years ago, many of the sheiks were backing the Sunni insurgency and refusing to recognize Maliki's Shi'ite-dominated government. Now, Sheik Mohammed al-Hais told me, "We are closer to Maliki than any Shi'ite group...