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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passion in life--the importance of getting an international perspective on people's lives," he says now, adding, "It's frightening how totally ignorant we are, even here at Harvard where the scope is wider." In the admissions office, this passion translates into handling some of the foreign admissions load, chairing the committees that award several prestigious traveling fellowships, and co-authoring with Admissions Director William R. Fitzsimmons '67 and three others this fall's comprehensive report on the experience of foreign students at Harvard. Nationally, he will soon begin chairing a committee on immigrants' children and their adjustment...
Opening day! In front of the brick dormitory, the dust-streaked family car lurches to a halt with its load of indispensable college supplies: one Sony stereo with headphones, two gooseneck lamps, five pairs of blue jeans, two down parkas (one old, one new), one pair of Rossignol skis ... and one nervous freshman wondering whether anybody will like him. The older students have an easier time of it, needing only to unpack what they left in storage over the summer: more lamps, more blue jeans, boots, bicycles, one unused thesaurus donated by an out-of-date uncle .. . And now, from...
...School announced that the course on race, which had previously been a full-term course, would now be offered as a "minicourse" in the Law School's three-week January session. And it announced that two visiting professors would share the teaching load: J. LeVonne Chambers, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF), and Jack Greenberg, director-counsel of the LDF. Chambers is Black, and Greenberg is white...
...know it's not a gut--how's that?" he responds. "That particular criticism may bother me, but there's not much I can do about it. If people perceive a reading load with fewer pieces of literature but where I try to insist on having that read carefully and really mastered, if they perceive that as a gut, fine...
...join his wife in Princeton. He obtained a fellowship at Princeton's Center for Advanced Learning, which allowed him to work on a book at home while caring for his son, Laszlo, age five. Nagy says he was the primary parent for Laszlo, and that his wife, her academic load lightened somewhat, has done more of the work in raising their daughter, Antonia...