Word: perhapses
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"Undergraduates need a much smaller library, of perhaps 100,000 volumes, made up chiefly of modern, replaceable books, to which they can be admitted without restriction and for which a simplified catalogue is available," Metcalf said.
Yet, as Heimert comes to the end of his academic odyssey through Harvard as he plans to retire at the end of the next academic year, he says his final stint at the University has perhaps been his most rewarding of his teaching experiences.
A few years ago, the mischievous British media tried to fan the flames of a feud between Indian authors Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth by reporting that Rushdie had dismissed Seth's epic 1993 best seller, A Suitable Boy, as nothing but a "soap opera." Seth denied that Rushdie had...
As an anthropologist, I firmly object to the theories presented by paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus [PALEONTOLOGY, May 3], who supports the idea that there was interbreeding between prehistoric Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens. Archaeologists merely uncovered a single skeleton of a child with a mixture of modern and Neanderthal features. To...
Wisdom was also a man of his time. A member of the elite white class of New Orleans and a dedicated Republican, he belonged to private clubs that excluded blacks and Jews. "They know how I stand on these matters," he said. "I certainly wouldn't change their views by...