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...extremely erudite—he knew a lot about the world," said Michael S. Flier, director of the HURI and a Ukrainian philology professor. "[When speaking to him,] you knew you were around an expert. You had to make sure you were accurate...
Flier, who had known Ševčenko since 1991, said that Ševčenko was not the kind of scholar who spent all of his time isolated in his study, absorbed in his own work—instead, he was a generous and approachable professor who often invited students to lunch. The world of historical scholarship, Flier said, will miss Ševčenko as someone who had great command of the field—but Flier added that he will remember his friend best for his warmth and grace...
...motion, Tenenbaum's counsel—led by Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson '60—argued for a new trial by disputing Judge Nancy Gertner's interpretation of the fair use of music files. Tenenbaum had been ordered last summer to pay the Recording Industry Association of America $675,000 for illegally downloading music...
Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree told the Boston Herald yesterday that he was looking into helping Galluccio with his appeal, describing the senator as “a friend for a couple of decades." Ogletree represented Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in the professor's dispute with the Cambridge police earlier this year...
...latter category, no one knows how much students learn at a given college or university. No one knows. The entire process for assessing learning is completely idiosyncratic and course based. Now in some cases there's good reason for that. There may be courses where literally there is one professor somewhere who is the only person who teaches a certain subject a certain way. At the same time, there is also a great deal of commonality. If you look at the courses students tend to take, almost everyone who goes to college takes a psychology class and takes an English...