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Nobel Laureate and former Lamont University Professor of Philosophy and Economics Amartya K. Sen gave a keynote address to an audience of HLS graduates, program donors and prominent human rights activists at a Saturday night dinner in Pound Hall...
...serious threat to his life in each of the first two books, but this time Harry may be overmatched. The Azkaban prison guards, horrid hooded apparitions called dementors, have been summoned to Hogwarts to protect Harry, but he keeps fainting whenever a dementor comes near him. A sympathetic professor tells Harry why dementors merit fear: "They breed in the darkest, filthiest places, they create decay and despair, they drain peace, hope and happiness out of any human who comes too close to them... Even Muggles feel their presence, though they can't see them. Get too near a dementor...
Despite its publisher's hope that Purdy's book will hit it big with thoughtful twentysomethings starved for meaning in a vacuous time, For Common Things is an arduous read that would test the syntactical skills of a tenured professor. It is not the accessible pop polemic some reviewers have made it out to be but an achingly ambitious manifesto from a very young young man who happens to be, alarmingly often, eloquent beyond his years. Insufferably smug, however, Purdy is not, particularly when it comes to his anointment as an instant wise man for the millennium. "Irony," he elegantly...
...this case, in the area of discourse on race, which is befogged with sanctimony and hypocrisy. As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time. CAMILLE PAGLIA PROFESSOR OF HUMANITIES University of the Arts Philadelphia
...have benefited from and participated in Harvard feminist networks--as an undergraduate, graduate student and most recently a faculty member," says Ann Pellegrini '84, who taught at Harvard and is now an associate professor of women's studies at Barnard College...