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During the Exercises, teaching prizes were bestowed on three professors—Lawrence Buell, Benjamin M. Friedman, and Richard J. Tarrant—who had been nominated by graduating seniors elected into Phi Beta Kappa. Eight individuals present??including five members of the class of 1960 and poet D. A. Powell—also received honorary membership...
...would be wiser to listen to President Abraham Lincoln, who said: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present??As our case is new, we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country...
Tuberculosis: The very name of the disease evokes images of antiquity, a footnote in dusty encyclopedias of human sickness overshadowed by the abbreviated diseases of the present??SARS, HIV/AIDS, H1N1. Few students would be able to guess that one third of the world’s population is infected with TB or that more than 12,000 cases were reported in the U.S. in 2008. Transmitted by coughing, sneezing, or spitting, TB thrives in the humid and closely-packed quarters of slums and urban outskirts...
This is not to say that there are absolutely no protections evident in the Patriot Act. But we do assert that the privacy protections that are present??which include court authorizations—are inadequate safeguards against the government’s abuse of power...
...After considering the connection between Ford and Bogdanovich, the HFA decided that an exhibition of Bogdanovich’s films would provide a perfect complement to Ford’s wide body of work. As Guest explains, “We called it ‘Between Past and Present?? partly for that reason. Bogdanovich’s cinema references quite clearly classical Hollywood cinema, and at the same time, points forward towards the new Hollywood, which was America’s equivalent of the French New Wave.” The Ford festival will screen twenty...