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...Time. His film is being heralded as the first major feature to examine the personal cost of entanglement with the Stasi. "There has been a tendency to see the former G.D.R. as a state in which no one really suffered and the Stasi was just a laughing matter," says Peter Schneider, a German author and Lola awards jury member. "Now we have the first real attempt to show how the secret service poisoned the lives of millions of citizens." The Lives of Others is part of a wider and growing debate in Germany about the G.D.R...
...between classes and exams. That’s right—reading period actually began a paltry 79 years ago, under the auspices of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell. “Reading period was initially a faculty benefit, and students benefited indirectly,” says Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church. In 1927, Clifford H. Moore, the Chairman of the Committee on Instruction, penned a confidential proposal to the Committee on Instruction; he suggested shortening the periods of formal teaching in order to give the faculty a break from...
...developing technologies that will hopefully aid a shift from oil-based to hydrogen-based energy. “[The fellows] are scattered through the university,” said Minard. “There is a fairly wide array of topics.” The other five fellows are Peter Alagona, a doctoral candidate in history at the University of California-Los Angeles; Nicole S. Downey, who is finishing a doctorate in environmental science and engineering at the California Institute of Technology; Peter Huybers, a former Army tank platoon leader with a doctorate in climate physics and chemistry from...
NOVEMBER 12, 2002 The Faculty had its first discussion of the curricular review. Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes urged the Faculty to take advantage of this “one moment of intellectual adventure in our time...
...Classics chair Richard F. Thomas asked whether Summers had considered allowing schools other than FAS to grant PhD degrees and separating the Graduate School from Arts and Sciences from FAS. Summers responded with a terse “No and no,” but then-Dean of GSAS Peter T. Ellis later said that Summers was lying...