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...believes that everyone could benefit from help with public speaking.“If we had public speaking courses, it wouldn’t just be one-size-fits-all,” says Engell, who is also the chair of the English department, Gurney professor of English, and professor of comparative literature. “Speaking is such an important skill in so many important fields that each student would find the right kind of help in the right context at the right level.”According to Engell, Harvard offered public speaking courses up until the 1970s...
...Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh said yesterday that the program will not be “Arab-oriented...
...hopes of a new country, as well as the belief that the arts and sciences flourish under freedom. Other 2005 fellows from Harvard are David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography; John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; James Engell, Gurney professor of English literature; Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School; Duncan M. Kennedy, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School; Louis M. Kunkel, professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School; Jay W. Lorsch, Kirstein professor of human relations at Harvard Business School; Tom A. Rapoport, professor...
...Oregon and writing her "Work & Family" column for the Wall Street Journal, when in the space of two years she got divorced, lost her father, drained her bank account and developed a taste for wilderness camping and ATV riding that left her crumpled up on an emergency-room gurney. "People around me thought I'd taken leave of my senses," she says. A few months later, "I was in a sling, trying to type with my broken collarbone, on the phone with one of my editors, and we were laughing about it." At that point, she says, "I realized...
...very loathe to abandon a program that teaches writing in the first year,” said Engell, Gurney Professor of English Literature and a Professor of Comparative Literature...