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After Heaney resigned his teaching position in 1996, then-College President Neil Rudenstine renewed the Ralph Waldo Emerson position in order to preserve a place for Heaney in the bastion of American academia...
...meaning of faith, after all, is to hold fast to something without all the tidy cause and effect that science finds so necessary. Try parsing things the way geneticists do, and you risk parsing them into dust. "God is not something that can be demonstrated logically or rigorously," says Neil Gillman, a professor of Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City. "[The idea of a God gene] goes against all my personal theological convictions." John Polkinghorne, a physicist who is also Canon Theologian at England's Liverpool Cathedral, agrees: "You can't cut [faith] down...
...says play hip-hop because that's what blacks listen to," he says. "The government doesn't exactly promote these things. But we can all expose ourselves to something new." That sounds pretty close to a Chinese translation of "Just Do It." --With reporting by Daren Fonda/ Beaverton and Neil Gough/Guangzhou
...Kensington, N.H. native started rowing competitively when he transferred into nearby Phillips Exeter Academy in his junior year of high school—as soon as he could legally drive himself from home to school everyday. His brother Neil ’03 had also rowed at Exeter, notably, and then also at Harvard as a senior captain under head coach Harry Parker...
While they have a core group composed of Alexander L. Pasternack ’05, Neil G. Ellingson ’05, Yan Xuan ’05, and Tim H. Wong ’05, they also have another small posse—affectionately referred to by Wong as “the Red Cross”—who fill in when needed. “This band is open to everyone,” says Pasternack...