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...McMaster University who has long championed works councils in North America. "Over here, we went through terrible times in steel, but in Germany they had the same reorganization amid relative calm, mostly because the works councils were able to navigate through the nitty-gritty of how to humanely lay people...
...Rudenstine says that it took him his first few years to figure out the lay of the land at Harvard. This will also be challenging for Summers, who has not taught at Harvard since...
...letter." This passing remark stands as a challenge to the reader of Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964. For while the whole of a relationship may not be captured in its letters, many of its details and complications lay buried within and between the lines, waiting to be uncovered. Emily Bernard's extensive collection and study of the 39-year correspondence between two of the Harlem Renaissance's most compelling personalities indeed challenge the reader to reach for the many insights regarding the state of American letters during these years...
...Underage drinking is a scourge upon the land, and to hear that as honored an institution as the Grille--once described as the best bar in Boston by Matt Damon, Class of 1992--would allow such a practice has left us thunderstruck. For years first-years have wondered what lay behind the mysterious doors of the Grille, gauntlets through which no underage student would dare to pass. How on earth did those six students evade the many watchful guards who manned the gate...
...Paris--not quite a central figure but able to turn his marginality around so that it looked like aristocratic refusal of a slightly questionable limelight. "Balthus," he told a writer in the '60s, "is a painter about whom nothing is known"--and he did make every effort to lay false trails for would-be biographers...