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...University of Montreal, took the party leadership with 54.7 percent of the delegates’ votes, effectively ending Ignatieff’s chances of becoming prime minister if the Liberal Party takes back Parliament in the next election. Ignatieff—a prominent public intellectual who earned a PhD in history from Harvard in 1976—left his position as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School last December and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons. Although Ignatieff was the frontrunner in the party leadership race, other candidates swung their...
...season, a Muslim holiday.” Lee also cites his family as an inspiration, crediting his parents with giving him the confidence to run. “My parents are an inspiration because they did not know English but somehow got through graduate school and wrote their PhD theses,” he says. “I look at them now and they still can’t really speak English. That they could accomplish this with no support system...is a big inspiration...
...education Lockwood received from Queens College helped him to realize that he needed to devote his life to something that sated both his intellectual and musical appetites, he says. Although Lockwood was passionate about many periods of music history, he finished his graduate study at Princeton University with a PhD in 16th-century Italian music. “Only later did I feel the need to make a choice,” Lockwood recalls. Over time, he became fascinated by Beethoven. “I discovered the field of Beethoven study was more wide open then people had thought...
Recently, venerable Yale art historian Vincent Scully ’40, MA ’47, PhD ’49 recounted for me a time long ago, when Yale vs. Harvard meant just as much as Michigan vs. Ohio State. Back then, he said, games would be played later in the afternoon, so when Yale would lose, the sky was inevitably a bluish-black (as it was 363 days ago), the sun having set not just on a day or a season but on all of autumn...
...address glaring gaps in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations that he says an “unsympathetic administration” has ignored. “We just lost two fields, Persian Languages and Literatures, and Turkish Languages and Literatures, and we cannot accept any AM or PhD candidates for these fields,” he said. This is “a situation that clearly needs to be rectified.” Heinrichs said that he is hoping to steer the program toward a focus on modern Islamic studies—“the fields that...