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...racial, religious and social discrimination and economic deprivation, not to mention the pogroms and ghettos of the World War II era, Jews have produced philosophical, artistic and scientific geniuses like Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein and Marc Chagall - not suicide bombers. Jack Hoffmann Allerod, Denmark Your cover headline "Why Some Young European Muslims Are Turning to Extremism" makes a rather broad assumption. Aren't there any disaffected young Muslims in the U.S.? Aren't any of them unemployed and angry about living in a nation that went to war in Iraq over...
DIED. LEO STERNBACH, 97, chemist and inventor of the widely used antianxiety drug Valium; at home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Born in Austria and educated in Poland, he began his career with Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Sternbach collected 241 patents in his career; he also developed the tranquilizer Librium, the sleeping pill Mogadon, Klonopin for epileptic seizures and Arfonad to control bleeding during surgery...
...professors have prepared to meet students over meals, to lead them through the Fogg Art Museum, and to discuss the news of the week and controversial topics in French culture. Big names such as Professor of History of Art and Architecture Henri Zerner and Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, who may seem far removed from humble undergraduate student life, in fact will be available to personally interact with students. In the evening, student talent will be on show with a lively poetry reading as well as a performance of French singing and musical talent. We hope you can join...
Rebecca L. Hoffmann ’06, who goes to Louie’s regularly for snacks, said, “They certainly have a right to ask Harvard, but I don’t think it’s something that’s very serious. Louie’s doesn’t really contribute to a drinking problem on campus...
...range from defenses of the Core Curriculum to recommendations for a distributional requirement or even suggestions for new integrative, interdisciplinary approaches. A central theme of the professors’ thoughts is the need for students to learn to think and read critically, a process which Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann terms “the training of judgment.” A related issue, but one which not all professors seem to have tackled, is one we students face daily: the problem of reading...