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Steven R. Levitsky spent more than two decades studying Latin America despite his mother’s confusion as to why a “nice Jewish boy” would do so. On Friday the Harvard government professor, an undergraduate favorite, was offered tenure here.Levitsky only learned about the decision the following day. “I had gone home early to make latkes for a Hanukkah party, and couldn’t be reached,” Levitsky said in an interview yesterday.“I was shocked,” he went...
...that while the things he said and did can’t be condoned, they can be forgiven because of his illness,” said Sidnie W. Crawford, who also worked with him on the Scrolls project. According to Crawford, Strugnell was instrumental in bringing both female and Jewish scholars to the team...
...crowd of over 30 huddled near the stone steps of Widener. A sign in front of the menorah read, “Happy Chanukah from Harvard Friends of Chabad.” “It’s a really great holiday that brings people together from different Jewish backgrounds, even if you’re not observant,” said Samantha J. Perry ’09, the student president of Harvard Chabad. Perry also emphasized that the event allowed non-Jewish people to learn more about the holiday. The menorah lighting has become an annual event...
...writer and Kentucky native Elizabeth Hardwick was born in the wrong region for someone who aspired to be a "New York Jewish intellectual." So she moved north and got a Ph.D. at Columbia. In 1945 she drew comparisons to Eudora Welty with her first novel, The Ghostly Lover. After writing for the Partisan Review, though, Hardwick became better known as a critic, co-founding the highbrow New York Review of Books in 1964 and producing such collections as Seduction and Betrayal, now standard reading for the study of women in fiction. Hardwick...
...failed attacks - would have almost certainly set off the totality of the charge. The theory that the smaller explosion sought to generate an even larger shock wave in media reports seems odd as well. "What would the point being made have been - that the bomb blew up near a Jewish organization that went untouched?" Jacquard asks. "Never rule anything out, but at this point, I'd look at the client and cases the law office handled. That seems to be where this probably came from...