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...Since its inception in 1908, Harvard has presented multiple plays, musicals and other theatrical works every semester. Before the current system, auditions for each show were conducted independently throughout the semester. “Actors dropped out of one production to do another,” recalls Jonathan S. Miller ’72. In 1984, the HRDC board, led by then-president Nick J. Wyse ’84, decided to coordinate auditions of the separate on campus theater companies. Early on, bylaws—such as rules prohibiting directors from directly contacting actors before cast lists go up?...
...College announced the final architect for the campus permanent pub yesterday, Miller Dyer Spears (MDS), which is recognized for innovative planning techniques. The transformation of Loker Commons into the permanent pub is slated to begin in June. MDS will replace architecture firm Offie Space dA, which ran the pub’s design feasibility study. Zachary A Corker ’04, who was hired this year as project manager of Loker Commons planning and program development, said that he’s excited about working with the new architects. “They are some cool cats. They really...
Currently, Islamic Studies is mostly confined to the religious and historical aspects of the faith, and especially to Islam in the Middle East. At this point, undergrads study Islam through NELC or the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Professors like Granara and Susan G. Miller, a senior lecturer in Islamic civilizations, stress the need for a more multidisciplinary program. “This is a disgrace,” says Granara. “Our field is vastly underrepresented...and increases [in funding] are very much necessary.” Ahmed points to Sufism, Islamic mysticism, as a key area...
...Pentagon report inJuly 2005 found that al-Qahtani had been subjected to treatment that was--though not a violation of Defense Department policy-- cumulatively "abusive and degrading." It specifically recommended that the commandant of Guantnamo, Major General Geoffrey Miller, be reprimanded for failing to adequately monitor the interrogation of a high-value detainee, believed to be al-Qahtani. But Miller's superior, Southern Command Commander General Bantz Craddock, decided against the reprimand. Congress last December passed a provision, sponsored by Senator John McCain of Arizona, that bars U.S. personnel from engaging in "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment...
...overall development goals. Ray Mellone, chair of the task force that is critiquing Harvard’s plans for a new campus, asked that his group be included in a review of Charlesview’s plans for the new apartments, a responsibility not technically under its purview. Tom Miller, the director of economic development at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, said the Task Force had only been informed of the proposal at the insistence of the City. “We are encouraging Harvard to bring things in earlier rather than later,” Miller said last night...