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...said about this book, and about vampires in general, that you prefer more vicious ones, none of this "Romantic languid young men sucking the necks of beautiful people." That aspect of vampirism has never attracted me. In Polidori's Vampyre, the beauty of Lord Ruthven - who is the vampire in that story - the beauty of him is that he's both. He is described as a creature in one scene, and he's also the romantic lead. Those strands will always be intertwined in the common imagination. But I'm attracted much more to the re-animated corpse hungry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guillermo Del Toro on Vampires | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...outlook when they first met in the fall of 2007. “As a curriculum, as a grouping of categories, it would be hard to say that anyone was genuinely excited about it,” former Gen Ed committee member Li says of the group, adding that none of them saw it as a “radical shift” from the Core. Buckler says she hopes that students will find Gen Ed courses to be “an actual experience that really counts for something.” “[Gen Ed classes] should...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gen Ed Forced To Get Practical | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...have met with Dean Michael D. Smith of FAS, Dean Allan M. Brandt of GSAS, Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds of Harvard College. None of them bargained for this crisis when they came on board. Neither did President Drew G. Faust. “Harvard is not invulnerable to the seismic financial shocks in the larger world,” she told us in a letter this fall. “Our own economic landscape has been significantly altered.” We would all need to navigate between these seemingly incompatible goals: the need “to advance...

Author: By Diana L. Eck | Title: The Bucket Brigade | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...None of this is to say the FBI can't do a good job at counterterrorism. On the contrary, the FBI investigated the 1998 African bombings, breaking open our understanding of al-Qaeda. Special agents in the FBI's New York office came to know al-Qaeda as well as anyone in the government. However, the FBI was forced to take a backseat when the CIA resorted to abusive interrogations, depriving us of expertise we so badly needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Counterterrorism: A Role for the FBI, Not the CIA | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...issue on the part of students and faculty,” Verba said.Indeed, just a month after the Dominguez case appeared on its radar, the administration released the results of the survey—one-third of all female students reported experiencing sexual harassment at Harvard, but almost none of these women was willing to file a formal complaint.“Things were more under the table [in the 1980s],” said Gabrielle Gropman, a member of Harvard’s departmental staff. “If there was an incident of harassment at the time...

Author: By Edward-michael Dussom and Danielle J. Kolin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Sexual Harassment Publicized, Punished in '80s | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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