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...were both at Yale in the early nineties and we both had dogs. We met each other, I think, at the dog park. 2. FM: You two decided to write the novel as a birthday present for a friend? JL: He was actually our graduate student mentor at Yale, John Demos. When an academic retires, his graduate students usually hold a conference to celebrate his work. Jane and I decided that for our piece of the conference we were going to write character sketches that were a send-up of 18th-century genre fiction. It took us a week...
...them against failure. The Congressional Oversight Panel added this proposal to their report. The panel includes three Harvard affiliates: the chairwoman, Law School Professor Elizabeth Warren; attorney Damon A. Silvers ’86, who also holds law and business degrees from Harvard; and former New Hampshire Republican Senator John E. Sununu, a Business School graduate. Moss said he had been contacted by a number of government officials intrigued by his ideas. “There’s been a significant amount of interest, and it strikes me as very positive and healthy,” he said. However...
...over Kevin Kung at No. 6. Mangham stretched Harvard’s advantage to 3-1 when he defeated Haig Schneiderman, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Columbia matched the Crimson’s resilience through wins for Nichifor (6-1, 4-6, 6-4) and John Wong (7-6, 7-6) to even the score at 3-3, before Felton’s dramatic win. “We were points away from playing in the third place match this morning,” Fish said. “I was very pleased that we got in right from...
...years, Presidents have used this image of omnipotence to mask a reality of inaction. The pattern got its start in the early 1970s, when Richard Nixon appointed the nation's first energy czar, a Coloradan named John Love. The arrival of the handsome Westerner was announced with appropriate czarist fanfare, and Love went right to work on a plan to reduce the amount of energy that Americans consumed. But he quickly realized that Nixon didn't really want Americans to consume less energy; he wanted people to think that he cared about the issue, even if he didn't. Love...
...those who oppose such restrictions, will strengthen democracy by allowing voters to decide how long a popular leader can stick around. Term-limit proponents, however, say Chávez's triumph will only carry the region back to its authoritarian past. "What Venezuelan voters decide is their business," says John Walsh, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "But a threshold does seem to have been crossed...