Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...renowned British conductor, Christopher Hogwood, will lead an informal colloquium for undergraduate and graduate students in the Music Building. Hogwood is one of the founders of the Academy of Ancient Music and has made several harpsichord recordings. Currently he works with the Handel and Haydn Society, but in the past, Hogwood has recorded with such American groups as the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. His seminar, which is sponsored by the Office for the Arts and the Music Department, will focus on the problems and joys inherent in conducting classical symphonies...
Clark's claims that he is suddenly interested in tolerating CLS viewpoints remind us of a very dirty campaigner's pledge to create a kinder, gentler nation. Rhetoric cannot hide the past. Clark's classroom antics and his qualifications as a corporate law expert should not obscure the fact that he was the wrong choice at the wrong time for the law school...
...think there are going to be a lot of people saying they want to teach past 70. Most people I know really want to leave at age 65," says Lowell Professor of the Humanties William Alfred '49. "It doesn't look like a tough profession but it really is. They'd have to bring them in on ironing boards...
...University's ability to recruit junior faculty has been under attack for the past several years, as younger academics say that the near-impossibility of being promoted from within Harvard's faculty makes the University a less attractive workplace than many of the other prestigious schools, such as Columbia or the University of California at Berkeley...
AMERICAN cities are among the most racially segregated in the world. The number of Black neighborhoods suffering from extreme poverty has grown steadily for the past 20 years. These ghettos have terrible schools, few job opportunities and high crime rates. Although ghetto residents comprise a small percentage of the nation's poor, they account for approximately half of federal welfare expenditures...