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Arriving from 20 years of public service, Bradley will take charge of FAS-wide initiatives as the school implements long term responses to the recent budget crisis, according to Kirwan...
...their newly permanent positions, Kopstain, Lichten, and Bradley report directly to Kirwan, who wrote in the e-mail announcement that she was glad to “have recognized the talent and capabilities that exist in abundance within our FAS community, while also bringing in fresh perspectives from the public sector” in making these three appointments...
...matter, the book is unusual. Though it was released to much fanfare this March, Steinberg died in 1950. “The Prophet’s Wife” is an unfinished manuscript, long preserved in boxes of papers and correspondence, and only now edited and presented to the public. The book has no ending, though not for lack of trying by numerous Jewish novelists—including Steinberg’s close friend, Herman Wouk—who were asked to provide one and failed. But at over 300 pages, “The Prophet’s Wife?...
...singularity of Steinberg’s mode of writing helps explain the curious sight of many Jewish public and literary luminaries—Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick and Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this...
...Democrats passed the bill without a single Republican vote - and with the knowledge that it may well have ended the political careers of some who voted for it at a time when the public remains deeply divided over the entire endeavor. "If we pass this bill, there will be no turning back," warned minority leader John Boehner. "It will be the last straw for the American people." (See 10 health care reform...