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...addition to Healey and Gelb, the programs will be overseen by a committee of nine members, which includes Alan Brinkley, an author and history professor at Columbia University; Nicholas Lemann, an author and Washington Editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Kari Marton, author and human rights activist and Vartan Gregorian, the president of The Carnegie Corporation and former president of Brown University...
...third chapter, "Why?", is a combination of the history of the Julian, Gregorian and Jewish calendars. Gould details the mathematics behind the leap year system and explains calendrical curiosities from Hanukkah to George Washington's birthday. Gould attempts to expand into a commentary on the philosophical relationship between reality and scientific inquiry, but does not give himself the vocabulary, subject matter or space to say anything profound...
Most recently president of Ohio State University, Gee replaces Vartan Gregorian, the eight-year Brown head who was named president-elect of the Carnegie Corporation earlier this year...
University President Vartan Gregorian wrote, in response to a letter from the alleged victim's parents, "I do not know if the advisor knew or was friends with the family of the charged student, but the University does not require the advisor to be impartial and the students usually choose a professor they know well. I have to assume that their friendship would not disqualify her participation as I assume others would not view my friendship with [the woman's family] as compromising my judgment as President...
...composed. He uses the full range of colors and emotions available to him through the ancient instruments and voices, as can be heard in his numerous contrasts of tone throughout the Vespers. The psalmic settings (which were numbered incorrectly in the program except for Psalm 147) follow the Gregorian chant, but with great variations. On the other hand, the motets employs a style radical for those times: the "monody" or duet writing, which has a bolder and more expressive sound. Particularly beautiful is the transition from his hymn Ave maris stella (XII) to the concluding Magnificat (XIII). These two movements...