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Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay said that Skocpol had served with “dedication and distinction” at the helm of GSAS. “Surely she has the qualities and experience to offer leadership in a variety of institutional settings,” she said when asked about Skocpol’s future...
...after she spent four years at the University of Chicago. Skocpol accepted, and became the first woman to be tenured in Harvard’s sociology department.Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay said that Skocpol had served with “dedication and distinction” at the helm of GSAS.“Surely she has the qualities and experience to offer leadership in a variety of institutional settings,” she said when asked about Skocpol’s future.Under Skocpol’s leadership, all advanced Ph.D. students are now provided with dissertation support...
...promptly killed. That information also gives Swagger a rare ally (pretty, stalwart Kate Mara, who played Heath Ledger's daughter in Brokeback Mountain) once he's on the run from Washington, D.C., to Tennessee, which he calls "the patron state of shootin' stuff." (The always authoritative Levon Helm has an excellent cameo here as a Yoda of gun lore.) His other helper is a rookie FBI agent (World Trade Center's Michael Pena), who does a lot of Internet research before he joins Swagger and gets to blow up some traitors...
...Venice Biennale. Last time around it was a victory for celebrity, with actress Cate Blanchett upstaging her compatriot artist Ricky Swallow in the Australian pavilion; rather than Killing Time, the name of his meticulously carved still-life centerpiece, it was more like paparazzi time. But this year, under the helm of Robert Storr, former curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, the serious appraisal of art should win out. And for Australian artists, there's the best chance yet of a coveted Golden Lion or best-pavilion prize...
...crimes of its students. Regardless of pressure from the RIAA, it is not the task of a university to patrol cyberspace in search of wrongdoing. The music industry has been able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take up the helm of prosecution on this count. While it is regrettable that piracy threatens the livelihood of musicians around the world, the RIAA has adopted the wrong response strategy to this phenomenon. Litigation may persist, but the problem of lost revenues will never be relieved by virtue of such an approach...