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Charles S. Maier '60, Krupp professor of European studies, suggested the best way for students to advance their language proficiency is to go to places where they are not "native speaker...
...advances given to float best sellers have contributed to the publishing slump. "A $1 million advance is not a shocker anymore," says Peter Breen, managing editor of Book Publishing Report. Ironically, it was Newhouse who developed the high-price strategy, says Thomas Maier, author of Newhouse, on the theory that, as in Hollywood, the hits could carry the dogs. "He became a victim of this theory and opened the door for media conglomerates to enter the world of book publishing," Maier notes...
Perhaps even a greater concern than the decision to reallocate the money was the shoddy process by which the University searched for a scholar to fill the proposed chair. According to Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies Charles S. Maier, the committee chair, some members of the search committee, though qualified scholars in the field, objected to the idea of a professorship solely devoted to the Holocaust and its causes...
...While Maier said that the decision to disbandthe committee was made by Knowles and the donors,the decision seemed to have been the result of thecommittee's inability to reach a consensus overkey issues...
...Maier says that with or without a chair,Harvard will continue to teach Holocaust studies.Maier himself is also teaching a seminar onHolocaust historiography this semester...