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While Harvard’s St. Patrick’s Day revelers downed green beer and kicked little Irish jigs last Friday, Derek C. Bok was huddled in his office sending an e-mail to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) community. He reached out a hand, not to dance, but rather to solicit input on the search for a dean of the Faculty to replace William C. Kirby. At this juncture, we have two primary suggestions for Bok to consider in the dean search. First, the next dean of the Faculty should have only an interim appointment...
...allegedly inebriated Harvard Law School student learned he did not have the luck of the Irish this past St. Patrick’s Day when he was arrested for flashing his pot of gold in public. Benjamin E. Huston was arrested last Friday at 5:20 p.m. for exposing his genitals to oncoming traffic, according to Boston Police Department (BPD). “There was an officer performing a traffic detail on Cambridge Street,” BPD officer Michael P. McCarthy said. “Fifteen individuals exited the Sports Depot Bar and crossed the street...
Banning smoking in Irish-style pubs decreases air pollution by 93 percent, according to a study co-sponsored by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Harvard researchers collaborated with scientists from the U.S. and Ireland to survey pubs in 15 countries around the world. Though researchers investigated pubs in 41 cities, including Beijing, Sydney, and Beirut, the study was originally conceived to evaluate the public health benefits of Ireland’s 2004 ban on smoking in public places. According to the study, pubs in cities without smoking bans had significantly higher levels of fine-particle pollution. The Environmental...
...major force on the global literary scene. Based in Normal, Illinois, the nonprofit publishing house has been unearthing lost treasures for two decades. Founded by American critic John O'Brien, the Dalkey Archive takes its name from a 1964 novel of that title by the late, hard-drinking Irish writer Flann O'Brien (no kin), one of the firm's early reprints. The surviving O'Brien and his team have since uncovered more than 300 new and out-of-print literary classics...
...move that’s eagerly awaited on both sides of the divide: Harvard students aspire to increase awareness of an artistic culture so prominent in the areas that surround their campus, while some members of the Irish community express a desire to give their culture a greater presence within the gates...