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...John C. Baldwin '71, Peter C. B. Bynoe '72, Sharon E. Gagnon, John R. Harrison '55 and Lisa M. Henson '82-'83 will begin six-year terms as overseers this year...
...Harrison, known as "Jack," retired two yearsago after 21 years as vice president of The NewYork Times...
...Harrison has a long and impressive record ofpublic service. He and his wife providescholarships to inner-city students through theirfoundation...
...embrace new technology without considering the many students who cannot afford an $80-to-$100 calculator. And the effort required to learn how to use it, some teachers believe, far outweighs the benefits. "The students grow dependent on a machine to do all the work for them," says Joan Harrison, who teaches A.P. math in Durham, North Carolina. "And I'm driven nuts because I'm having to spend valuable class time trying to get the student to push the right buttons. Where's the learning in that?" Only a few of her pupils own a calculator; the others...
...Kathryn Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel...