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After 12 years at the helm of Currier House, Master William A. Graham and Co-Master Barbara S. Graham will step down at the end of the academic year, they announced to House residents in an e-mail yesterday...
...William Graham, who is Albertson professor of Middle Eastern studies and professor of the history of religion, was named acting dean of the Divinity School last January and was named to fill the post permanently in August...
...Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American, a U.S. aid worker in 1950s Saigon turns out to be a spy. The recent film version of the story hasn't come out yet in Russia, but Nikolai Patrushev, director of the FSB, the successor agency to the KGB, must be familiar with the plot. Last month he accused U.S. Peace Corps volunteers of illicitly "collecting information on the sociopolitical and economic situation in Russia," singling out one staffer for entering a closed zone on the Chinese border and a volunteer for trying to establish inappropriate contacts. Even in a world where...
...Patrushev, a friend of Vladimir Putin, is apparently not convinced. With little tradition of volunteerism in Russia, the one-time cold warrior may simply have trouble with the notion of idealistic young Americans coming to Russia to do good. Or maybe he's just been reading too much Graham Greene...
...party's nomination this week, ending months of speculation and adding his particular brand of Southern progressivism to the mix. He officially joins Massachusetts Senator John Kerry and Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, both of whom declared their candidacies before the holidays. Senate minority leader Tom Daschle, Sen. Bob Graham of Florida and House minority leader Richard Gephardt are expected to announce in the next several weeks whether they will...