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...dedication to the cause of freedom.” Wisse was awarded the medal for “her scholarship and teaching that have illuminated Jewish literary traditions.” The medal, first awarded in 1997, “honors individuals or groups whose work has deepened the nation??s understanding of the humanities, broadened our citizens’ engagement with the humanities, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to important resources in the humanities,” according to the NEH Web site. Recipients of the National Humanities Medal are anonymously recommended...
...composed of representatives from eight different regions of the country.“This game is a huge confidence-booster going into the tournament,” Hoff said. “We have a very talented team, and we know we can play with any team in the nation??it’s all a matter of getting into the right mindset. We have the talent and the tutelage to go far if we stay focused.”—Staff writer Mauricio A. Cruz can be reached at cruz2@fas.harvard.edu...
...supposed aims to bring stability to the country are only in name. In appointing a Prime Minister yesterday, for example, Musharraf called on Mohammedmian Soomro, his close ally and member of his own ruling League-Q party. This is hardly the action of a man with the nation??s best interest in mind—it is blatant cronyism. Pakistan has become a place where dissent is not tolerated. Musharraf established emergency rule about two weeks ago, citing national security as the reason. He claimed that emergency rule was necessary to quash the growing...
...authors, as well as the audience, enjoy the experience. Psychology professor Daniel T. Gilbert, author of the best-selling “Stumbling on Happiness,” fondly remembers promoting his book at Harvard Book Store. “[Harvard Book Store] is one of the nation??s last great independent booksellers and one of Cambridge’s great treasures,” he wrote in an e-mail. “The staff work hard to create a vibrant intellectual community outside the University’s walls.” THE MISSION CONTINUESIn many...
...moronic, for a grand denunciation” (Yale Herald) and “surprisingly dull” (NY Sun). (I’ve read it; it really is quite bad.) Harvard’s class of 2004 featured Uzodinma Iweala, whose first novel “Beasts of No Nation?? was also published in 2005. The London Times called Iweala “a confident and promising new voice” and the San Francisco Chronicle lauded “Beasts” as a “stark, vivid book.” While Krinsky writes about...