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...Nazi regime of Hitler. Good is a study of the gradual acquiescence of a nation toward the hatred and genocide that took place in '30s Germany, culminating in the Holocaust. It explores this theme on a personal, individual level--through the character of John Halder (Diego Arciniegas), a humanities professor and a fundamentally good man who ultimately dons an S.S. uniform and heads off for his new position at the Auschwitz death camp. Halder's ascent (or descent) is recounted in a series of disconnected episodes that recall the pivotal moments in his life in the '30s. In the earliest...
...professor of Harvard's perennially popular Literature and Arts C-37, "The Bible and Its Interpreters," James L. Kugel is perhaps best known to undergraduates for his light-hearted personality and tendency to sing "Happy Birthday" to students in class. He is also known, however, as one of America's foremost Biblical scholars, an authority on issues from historical interpretation to translation. His 1997 book, The Bible As It Was, a history of biblical interpretation in antiquity, was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and a popular favorite. In his latest release, The Great Poems...
Perl-Matanzo has been circulating a petition to end the Navy presence which currently has the signatures of over 300 students and 44 Harvard faculty, including names as prominent as Frankfurter Professor Law Alan M. Dershowitz and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith...
After the rally, Harvard's Bliss Professor of Latin American History, John Womack '59, and Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth spoke on the Vieques situation in the Science Center...
Also present was Manuel Rodriguez-Orellana, professor at Inter-American Law School in Puerto Rico...