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Sunday’s announcement to the Board of Overseers mirrors the timing of the last search. Six years ago, on Dec. 10, 2000, the search committee read a list of between 30 and 40 candidates to the Overseers. The current search committee chairman, James R. Houghton ’58, is the only one of the nine members who served on the 2000-2001 panel...
Finding a spokesman for this side of the question was not hard, since Richard Dawkins, perhaps its foremost polemicist, has just come out with The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin), the rare volume whose position is so clear it forgoes a subtitle. The five-week New York Times best seller (now at No. 8) attacks faith philosophically and historically as well as scientifically, but leans heavily on Darwinian theory, which was Dawkins' expertise as a young scientist and more recently as an explicator of evolutionary psychology so lucid that he occupies the Charles Simonyi professorship for the public understanding of science...
...Delusion By Richard Dawkins Houghton Mifflin...
Smiley’s five-year sentence follows a three-and-a-half-year sentence handed down last month in federal court, after the 50-year-old admitted to stealing nearly 100 rare maps, including eight from Harvard’s Houghton Library...
...academic potential, according to a 2002 deposition given by Summers. Summers later told The Crimson that he recused himself from the Shleifer case “within a few days since I took office.” The Corporation’s senior fellow, James R. Houghton ’58, and the University’s former top lawyer, Anne Taylor, have both publicly stated that Summers had no involvement in the Shleifer litigation.Interim President Derek C. Bok has also said he would not participate in any disciplinary decisions regarding Shleifer because of his role as an adviser...