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...Israeli planners soon turned to studying Jerusalem's needs instead of international-style manifestoes to fashion their own city rather than another Brasilia. Heeding Historian Lewis Mumford's advice, they looked not to Baron Haussmann, who in the mid-19th century modernized Paris by cutting boulevards through the city's medieval fabric, but to Isaiah 65: 19, 21: "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people . .. and they shall build houses, and inhabit them...
Department chairman and yachting aficionado David Mumford seemed to be most excited about the whole affair, saying the four Aussies were a "patriotic bunch...
...Prof. Mumford, while listening to the final hour of the America's Cup on the radio, added that the Australian-American rivalry in the department has been "a bit of a joke" around the office for the past few years...
...contrast, Joseph Bernstein and David Kazhdan, two Jewish Soviet mathematicians now tenured here, were invited and heavily recruited. The department recruited both professors "because they were the best people around," Mathematics Department Chairman David Mumford says. Bernstein, who was sought by several other universities, chose Harvard this spring because of his friendship with Kazhdan, who had come to the University...
Harvard had been keeping an eye on this bright young scholar, and when he emerged from Russia in 1981, the decision to offer him tenure was an easy one, says Mumford. But for Bernstein, the decision to leave his country was not quite so simple...