Word: lymans
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...University Planning Committee on Science and Engineering (UPCSE), which released its final report in December. While the committee expected a favorable reception from President Derek C. Bok and the deans, the considerable financial support for the early stages of the initiative came as a pleasant surprise, according to Lyman Professor of Biology Andrew A. Biewener, who is the chair of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and a member of UPCSE.The Harvard Corporation’s enthusiasm in following UPSCE’s recommendations and willingness to devote $50 million to their implementation—a virtually unheard...
...said. “People think of Harvard as a leader of being green. It’s part of who we are to be energy conscious,” she added. Other buildings participating in the competition include the Littauer Center, Jefferson Hall, Pierce Hall, Lyman Laboratory, Hoffman Laboratory, Naito Laboratories, and both wings of the Center for Governmental and International Studies...
...gentleman under suspicion is Peter Lyman (Hugh Jackman), a moneyed chap who is polite to the point of blandness--the white bread of the English upper crust. Through a device too silly to be mentioned here, he comes to the attention of Sondra Pransky (Johansson), an American college student abroad. She believes Peter may be the infamous Tarot Card Killer who has been murdering prostitutes. Her co-sleuth is Sid Waterman (Allen), a not-so-hot magician who masquerades as her oil-rich father...
Prominent among these potshots is the casting of Australian Hugh Jackman (“X-Men”) as Peter Lyman, the son of a British Lord who Sondra meets—and subsequently falls for—while investigating a string of murders. Most of Allen’s skittishness seems to be rooted in the loss of the mutual understanding he had with New Yorkers, and the need to find something similar in London. A few delightful moments of Woody Allen 101 ensue, as when he explains to a British Lady, “I was born into...
...excluded from Lamont library. Throughout the 1970s, male students outnumbered women by a ratio upwards of three to one. The 1999 merger of Radcliffe College with Harvard caused the disappearance of both the financial support and the space Radcliffe provided for female students. A particularly large loss was the Lyman Common Room in Radcliffe Yard, which served as a de facto women’s center and left Harvard as the only Ivy League institution without a comparable space. Even as recently as 2002, Harvard changed its crime reporting rules, making proving a rape accusation nearly impossible?...