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...people being caught in places they aren’t supposed to be.”The two translations of Feydeau’s title evoke the tensions surrounding Hector Ennepeque, Feydeau’s semi-autobiographical main character, as he waits for his wife Léonie to give birth. His anxiety is exacerbated by snobby in-laws and a domineering midwife. Though the character of the midwife was a pushy Frenchwoman in the Feydeau original, Shapiro’s translation renders her a robust “German frau.” “I thought...
...print, without a publisher or an author claiming royalties. Millions upon millions of these books can be found in university and national libraries throughout the world. Furthermore, the agreement permits Google to continue to digitize copyright-protected books on the condition that they charge for access and give 63% of the revenue generated to the copyright holders, represented by a new organization that the settlement creates, the “Book Rights Registry.”No one seems too satisfied with this. Harvard Professor of History and Director of the Harvard University Library Robert Darnton has some serious problems...
...give serious props to all participants because of the very real bravery it takes to stand up in front of a crowd and flaunt one's fighting skills. But the question still remains, how did our boxers actually stack up in terms of style and prowess? Read the analysis after the jump...
...music he loves. “I want to learn how to help traditional music move forward without messing with what made it a tradition in the first place,” he says. As a co-founder of the Harvard College American Music Association, Gurney has worked to give such traditional tunes a place in the school’s wide-ranging music scene. The Association’s aim is to expose Harvard students to traditional music. Last year, the association invited banjo player Béla Fleck, this year bassist Edgar Meyer. The club?...
...saying, ‘You’re not going to cut my part,’” said a professor, who asked to remain anonymous, of the question-and-answer portion of the town hall meeting. “But something’s got to give, and someone’s got to choose.”Anne Harrington, chair of the history of science department, said she finds it unlikely that restructuring will occur at the departmental level because “the unit-analysis is wrong...