Word: philipe
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...inspiration for other women at Harvard to excel,” said Women’s Center director Susan B. Marine. Harvard students and faculty nominated 54 senior women, of whom 33 completed the application to receive recognition. The nominees include leaders of student organizations, active volunteers at the Philip Brooks House Association, and participants in arts or athletics beyond Harvard, according to Marine. “There’s no one way to define leadership,” she said. Beck, who won the top honor, was instrumental in the creation of the Peer Advising Fellows program...
...service is internet slang for what happens when, for better or for worse, an artist gives the people exactly what they want. Philip Pullman's brief, exquisite novel ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE NORTH (Knopf; 104 pages) is fan service at its best. North is set in the same quasi-Victorian alternative universe as Pullman's Golden Compass, where every human is accompanied by a talking-animal soul mate called a daemon. It's a prequel, the story of how a young and not-yet-grizzled Lee Scoresby, gunslinging aeronaut extraordinaire, and his rabbit daemon, Hester, first...
...part of the “Alternative Spring Break” program sponsored by the Philip Brooks House Association (PBHA), the students helped rebuild a church that had burned down in Dallas, Texas...
...Along the same lines, lobbyists close to McCain wear as badges of honor the times he has tossed them from his office. Charlie Black, a senior McCain adviser who has admitted to making calls to lobbying clients while aboard the McCain campaign bus, represented tobacco giant Philip Morris in 1998 when McCain decided to go to war with the tobacco industry. "He called me up and said, 'Look, I am not talking to you about this tobacco stuff anymore, and don't talk to the staff either,'" Black remembers. He said he called McCain's staff anyway, only...
Last Wednesday, Arthur C. Clarke, the renowned science fiction writer, died at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Clarke, who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998, is often placed in the pantheon of great science fiction Writers along with the likes of Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Ray Bradbury. The honor is justly deserved. During his 90-year life, Clarke wrote nearly 100 novels dealing with that strange, fantastic stuff called science...