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Beyond individual appointments, Summers’ grander plan for Harvard was to centralize a sprawling University that had traditionally kept its schools at arm’s length from one another...
...secular Fatah party. As he offers visitors a bowl of fruit, al-Bitawi recalls how, after returning to the West Bank from religious studies in Jordan in the 1970s, he looked for a future wife who covered herself in the traditional hijab, or head scarf, and the body- length jilbab. "I couldn't find a girl for months," he says. "Nowadays, 70% of Palestinian women wear these clothes. It's normal." To al-Bitawi, the change is a sign that more Palestinians are adopting the fundamentalist values that Hamas espouses. "Of course we would love to see Shari'a [Islamic...
...We’ve expressed ourselves at length to the administration about Deborah Foster’s situation,” Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Julie Buckler wrote in an e-mail yesterday afternoon. “University Hall seems responsive, even apologetic. This is a very hopeful sign, but we are eager for more than assurances,” Buckler added...
...brilliant man. I’m not saying I’m the ideal person, either. I’m saying that we have at Harvard College an ideal of a broad education that encompasses many different areas, and I think if one speaks to President Summers at length about some areas he’s not familiar with, he shows that he hasn’t really had the same kind of liberal arts education as we are trying to provide you people...
...music, nothing can kill a band's image faster than trying too hard. Fortunately Young and Sexy has avoided that fate: The five-piece band from Vancouver already knows exactly what it does best. Its third full-length release, Panic When You Find It, is a technically superb, 60s-influenced pop-rock album--and doesn't pretend to be more. There is no overarching theme in the often dark lyrics that songwriter Paul Hixon Pittman says he "usually think[s] about a year later," long after he's written them. Pittman's favorite song on the disc, 5/4, was named...