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Early Christian art, notes Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, a religious-art specialist affiliated with Washington's Georgetown University, sometimes omitted Joseph from the Nativity. When present, "he's either disinterested or separate, a doddering old man with a bald head or gray beard, a stock character," she says. The Rev. Michael Morris, an expert in art and Catholic theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif., says Joseph was occasionally painted sleeping through the event. This may have been a nod to his prophetic dreams, but Morris notes that even among Catholic clergy today, "if someone says he's going...
Self-selecting groups often perpetuate their own shortcomings when picking their new members. Thankfully, in selecting Patricia A. King to be its newest member, the Harvard Corporation, wisely avoided this common pitfall. King—a Georgetown professor and the first African-American woman to serve on the Corporation—will bring much needed diversity to the economics and business dominated body...
...They got exactly that with the selection on Sunday of Patricia A. King, a law professor at Georgetown and an expert in biomedical ethics, who also happens to be black and female. Several professors who have been critical of the Corporation and University President Lawrence H. Summers said in interviews this week that they were pleased with the choice of the academic King...
...Baker Nye Greenblatt and a senior trustee for the George F. Baker Trust, a $15 million fund established through the will of his grandfather that gives charitable gifts to medical and educational organizations.In addition to making significant donations to Harvard, Baker also contributed to Columbia University, Dartmouth University, and Georgetown University.In the 1960s, Baker helped found the Quebec Labrador Mission, which took American teenagers to teach at Canadian fishing villages, Aisner said. Baker was also involved with several other institutions, including the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Zoological Society, and the Woods Hole Sea Education Association on Cape...
...national student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).Over the weekend, STAND elected eight members to its national executive committee, launched a network connecting students fighting Darfur genocide, and kicked off a campaign to urge national politicians to take action on the issue.Students from Harvard, Brandeis University, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College organized the anti-genocide conference, which brought college and high school students from around the country. They came to attend workshops and organize a plan to fight the genocide in Darfur region of Sudan, in which over 400,000 have died and 450 villages have been destroyed.Patrick...