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...hour meetings were the ones with my professors from this semester. Not only did I find out that Yeretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse used to work “40 hours a week” as the features editor for the McGill Daily when she was in college, and that Professor Louis Menand eschews outlines for academic writing, the conversations were, obviously, the most productive: we still have course material to discuss. Retroactive office hours are not as effective...

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, | Title: Going out with a bang | 5/6/2004 | See Source »

...know he isn’t secretly leaking information to McGill, the so-called Harvard of the North...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Adam P. Schneider, Jannie S. Tsuei, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing a Curveball | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...worries me, but then again McGill could never be Harvard...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Adam P. Schneider, Jannie S. Tsuei, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Throwing a Curveball | 12/4/2003 | See Source »

...terrorized in East Timor, taken hostage in Bosnia and murdered in Chechnya. CARE recently reported that armed attacks on aid workers in Afghanistan have increased during the past year from one a month to one every two days. James Ron, Canada research chair in conflict and human rights at McGill University, links the uptick to the growing number of people doing this work and their increased willingness to operate in hostile areas. At the same time, combatants determined to undermine order have learned that upsetting relief work is a promising tactic. "An attack on the Red Cross is a signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Red Cross Now a Bull's-Eye? | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

Abdulaziz Sachedina, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia who spent much of his career in Canada, says that most Sunni community centers in Canada receive Saudi funding. Carl Sharif El-Tobgui, a Ph.D. student at McGill University's Institute for Islamic Studies, which specializes in the worldwide spread of Islamic culture, estimates that 10% to 20% of Canada's 580,000 Muslims adhere to Wahhabism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After 9: SAUDI ARABIA: Inside the Kingdom | 9/15/2003 | See Source »

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