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Sometime yesterday afternoon, you should have received some longwinded e-mail regarding some "January Experience Announcement" from our dean-friends Mike Smith and Evelynn Hammonds.

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: January Experience No More? | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

“In government, people are more willing to sacrifice egos to do something right from the efficiency standpoint,” one friend says. In the world of academic administration, where egos play a greater role, Summers will have to watch himself. “Someone will give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Word on Lawrence Summers | 6/7/2001 | See Source »

The subject of the American national identity is complex and contentious, often the subject of longwinded debates in American history circles. Some pundits say the United States suffers from a cultural divide. Americans don't have a common culture, they say; the American people comprise too many different cultures and...

Author: By Victor Chen, | Title: What It Means to Be American | 7/23/1996 | See Source »

HARVARD OFFICIALS announced last week that West German President Richard von Weizsacker will be the principal speaker at this year's Commencement Exercises. In picking the figurehead leader of a European nation to deliver the prestigious address, the University for the second year in a row chose a speaker relatively...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Commencement Speaker | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

BUT EVEN though Monsieur Artaud was a strange and rather tortured fellow--a French poet-actor who equated sex with eviceration and spent most of his life following the 1935 debut of The Cenci in an insane asylum--and although he wrote a strange and rather tortuous play, his work...

Author: By Cecil D. Quillen, | Title: Delightfully Absurd | 4/27/1984 | See Source »

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