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...famous as a city of artists and laborers, a "city of marvels" where discipline and flight converge. Now, to the famous roll call of its industrious dreamers -- Casals and Picasso, Miro and Lorca, Gaudi and Garcia Marquez -- can be added some new names: Joyner-Kersee and Jordan, Scherbo and Laumann. Besides, Barcelona now has something to remember Thimbu by, and even in television-less Thimbu there is a rumor of a place called Barcelona...
...tried to follow the committee's advice by offerring tenured positions at Harvard to three sociologists: Nancy Tuma, a professor at Stanford University; Edward Laumann, dean of social sciences at Chicago; and David Featherman of the University of Wisconsin. All three refused...
...other two offers--to Chicago's Edward Laumann and Wisconsin's David Featherman--were turned down in the fall...
...those are not the first reasons the refuseniks themselves offer in explaining their decisions not to come to Harvard. Laumann and Featherman, for instance, offered almost identical explanations: both thought their current departments were better than Harvard...
...already have everything in hand I could possibly want and then some." Laumann said, explaining his turndown...