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...doctorate program. He became an assistant professor in fall 2005.The History department hired Trygve Van Regenmorter Throntveit ’01 as a lecturer after most of his dissertation committee retired or decided to take time off. “I pitched a few classes to them, and I guess they took the bait,” he says. Apart from a year taken off before his PhD—which he completed at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences—Throntveit has been at Harvard for 11 out of the past 12 years.For Timothy P. McCarthy...
...suppressed these concerns and entered practice mode, watching syndicated episodes of the game show with my teammates nightly for two weeks. Although I’d watched the show before, I’d never realized it was basically a contest in mediocrity—teams compete to guess the most frequent responses to inane questions previously posed to 100 average Americans. For example, if asked “What’s a cure for the hiccups,” teams try to respond not with the most accurate or effective answer, but the one most common answer, which...
...Penn 30. BREAKING THE DROUGHT Going into Saturday’s contest, Harvard was an abysmal 1-12 in its last 13 visits to Penn’s Franklin Field, dating back to 1982. “I’ve been here for 15 years, so I guess I prefer to see the glass as half full,” Murphy said, pointing out that that stretch exceeds his tenure as head coach. “We’ve won two out of our last three years down here. That’s all I care about...
Impresario's departure scuttles Brokeback Mountain opera. Guess he did know how to quit...
...Ebershoff A pale, naked woman stares ahead, with only her long, sunflower-hued braid in sharp focus. Her soft skin melts into the yellow-toned background, while a pink blossom in her hair provides the sole variety in color. Again, a mysterious female presented without any particular setting? I guess that’s just the theme this season. This cover seems strange, secretive, evocative of hidden truth. Perhaps we should discuss further—and that’s not gossip, is it? TALK TALK by T.C. Boyle The jacket depicts nothing but three brilliantly white teeth...