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...been a typically mellow day at Manhattan's New School for Social Research for Bill Zanker, 26, who was cruising through a master's program in filmmaking. Then came a surprise phone summons from his father for lunch. When they met, Dad's message...
...hover beyond town fringes; and the reader's, for a character worthy of compassion and completion. Despite seemingly absurdist and sardonic elements, the novel is simpler and less fanciful than Hall's previous ones. It is set in 1983, when in N.S.W. there did reign a Department of, and Master in, Lunacy. And even today one doesn't have to travel far to find larger-than-life Country Women's Association presidents, murderous property developers or delusional district nurses. These, of course, are the dark characters Hall employs to keep Mrs. Shoddy's sanity at bay (most memorable...
...faculty members in six fields with teaching awards and several minutes of public praise on Class Day.) Good teachers could choose to instruct younger or less effective teachers in methods they themselves have found successful. They could be offered coveted living situations, either in the role of House Master or in local real estate, or could be invited to chair committees on undergraduate education and extracurricular life...
Eight years after a multi-billion-dollar master settlement between tobacco companies and 46 states on the health problems linked to smoking, cigarettes now have more nicotine—the substance that makes them addictive. Tobacco companies have raised nicotine levels in cigarettes by 11 percent—about 1.6 percent per year—between 1998 and 2005, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) confirmed on Thursday. The findings were first reported by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and later turned over to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health for independent analysis...
...meeting of the two groups in November. “People came to this meeting not knowing how easy it was to strike common ground,” said James J. McCarthy, a member of the coalition who is the Agassiz professor of biological oceanography and Pforzheimer House master. “We have a serious commitment in both communities to advance this agenda.” Eric Chivian, director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment, spearheads the six-week-old coalition along with longtime friend Richard Cizik, a leader in the Washington-based...