Word: littauer
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When Michael D. Smith walks into Littauer Center today, he may notice a yellow sign on the first floor: “Littauer Library Closed,” it reads...
...traced the history of nuclear proliferation since the end of World War II. “The non-proliferation of nuclear weapons has been vastly more successful in the past 40 years or more than anyone could have possibly expected,” he said. Schelling, who is the Littauer professor of political economy, emeritus, also discussed five wars since World War II in which the U.S., Soviet, U.K., and Israeli governments withheld the use of nuclear weapons despite danger that they would ultimately lose. Moving on to the current situation of nuclear proliferation, Schelling said that he believes both...
...because there seem to be some problems with resource allocation around Harvard. This time, the economics department has drawn the short straw and found its library space expropriated by an inefficient and imperious University Hall. The economics department has been hoping for a renovation of its aging Littauer Center since the early 1990s. Once the Government department moved out of half of Littauer and into its swanky, new $140 million Center for Government and International Studies in 2005, economics faculty thought their time had finally come. A full renovation was planned that would greatly expand Littauer’s classroom...
It’s the end of the road for Littauer Library.On June 8, the library on the ground floor of the Littauer building will close to users as it prepares to become the home of art books displaced by the renovation of the Fogg Museum. Many of the staff and services now located in Littauer will move to the first floor of Lamont Library, which will undergo renovation this summer to accommodate the change. Littauer’s holdings, which contain materials on economics and government as well as many historical labor papers, will mostly be placed...
...Beah said, but he has already spoken in front of the United Nations, appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and written an article for the New York Times Magazine, and published a book on his experiences. His appearance filled all the seats in the Littauer building. Power, who is the Lindh Professor of Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy, and Jacqueline Bhabha, the Executive Director of Harvard’s Committee on Human Rights Studies, asked Beah about how he thought the availability of light arms encouraged the use of child soldiers. Beah captured the attention...