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...miniaturist, a creator of wistful anecdotes featuring, over and over, the same sort of people: fatalistic men and moody women who, for a poignant, painful, precious few moments, connect. He cocoons these beautiful losers in his distinct visual-emotional style. The mix of cigarette smoke and step-printed slow motion, furtive glances and liquored wisdom, lends ordinary anguish an almost majestic glamour...
...curricular review in 2002, encouraged professors to end the discussion. “Everything that can be said has been said, although not everyone has said it.” Kirby, an East Asia scholar, cited a 1924 vote of the Chinese Communist Party: “The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed.”The curriculum approved yesterday has its foundations in a report released in October by a task force headed by English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Alison Simmons. That report made headlines by proposing that every undergraduate be required...
Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt...
...curricular review in 2002, encouraged professors to end the discussion. “Everything that can be said has been said, although not everyone has said it.” Kirby, an East Asia scholar, cited a 1924 vote of the Chinese Communist Party: “The motion was passed unanimously although many comrades were opposed...
...Career Development—all groups chaired or co-chaired by Skocpol. The task force released a “compact” this past winter urging professors to give as much weight to teaching as they do to research. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard criticized the motion as “an eleventh-hour attempt.” “We don’t have a compact that we voted on,” Burgard said, adding that the Faculty knows the report “from The New York Times last week?...