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...hour-long ceremony marked the official beginning of Harvard’s 368th year, as members of the Class of 2007 and their families packed a sunny Tercentenary Theater to hear speeches by Summers, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...
...tourist trip to Russia with his wife turned into a stint as legal consultant to Okhotin, Steiner said. Pivotal to this new role was an hour-long meeting in which he said he helped Okhotin and his lawyers diagnose weaknesses in the prosecution’s case...
...takes some kind of pleasure in the death penalty (which he affectionately calls watching a man fry). He doesn’t, of course, appear on C-SPAN. He doesn’t say enough to fill a sound bite, and certainly not to fill the hour-long slots. No, I watch the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Committee on Aging and the full House on that charming night when the Republicans called the police on the Democrats. I watch the meat of the debate, a reminder that the issues are more than: Are you with...
...biggest culprit is the hour-long midterm, or “hourly.” Usually consisting of several phrases to be identified (IDs) and a short essay, a midterm attempts to measure the knowledge gained over two months in about 53 minutes. A typical ID asks for the significance of the battle of Gettysburg to a course on war and politics. If you think that’s difficult to explain in five minutes, well, you’re right. Of course, professors don’t really expect students to go into an in-depth analysis?...
Ikels was remembered yesterday by friends and family during an hour-long service at Memorial Church’s Appleton Chapel. A portrait at the service showed Ikels with a half-scowl on his face—an expression his daughter, Charlotte F. Ikels ’64, said was appropriate...