Word: martin
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...noon today, Sanders Theatre should be unusually packed for the final lecture of Social Analysis 10, "The Principles of Economics." Why? Because today, Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 will answer students' questions during class. Unfortunately, the questions won't be as entertaining as they could be. Students were required to pre-submit their questions so that the Ec-10 office could choose among the queries...
...been a while... Pope John Paul II arrived in Rumania on Friday, the first pontiff to visit Eastern Orthodox territory since Martin I was abducted there in the seventh century. And his historic attempt to heal the 945-year-old rift between the Vatican and the Eastern Orthodox Church may resonate with Slavic nationalist perceptions of the current conflict over Kosovo. "NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia is seen by many in Serbia, and other parts of the Slavic world, as evidence that the Eastern Orthodox Church faces a crusade from the West for the domination of Eastern souls," says TIME...
Harvard recipients--whose names were announced in early April--are Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, Professor of Anthropology Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Government Lisa L. Martin, Zemurray Professor of the History of Science Katharine Park and Professor of German Maria M. Tatar...
According to the foundation's Web site, Tatar, who teaches Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales, Children's Literature, and the Culture of Childhood," plans to analyze the Bluebeard figure "in folklore, fiction and film noir." Herzfeld will analyze "past and present in modern Rome," and Martin will study "institutional affects on state behavior...
...American rocketry up to it? Earlier this week, and for the third time in a month, a U.S. rocket failed to lift its satellite payload into the proper orbit. On Tuesday, the second-stage boosters failed on a Boeing-made Delta III; in April, two Lockheed Martin Titan IVs fell short of their target orbits. The mission cost of the latest Delta failure, an Orion communication satellite that wound up in a lopsided orbit, was $230 million. That is the kind of money satellite companies don?t generally like to see blast off into nothing...