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DIED. HARRIET DOERR, 92, Lyrical, Award-Winning Author Who downplayed her social status as heiress to a railroad fortune and won a devoted critical and commercial following with three books, all published after she turned 73; in Pasadena, Calif. Known for her sharply beautiful, economical prose--she could labor over a sentence for an hour--Doerr based much of her writing on time spent with her family in Mexico, where her husband ran a mining business. She returned to college at 65 on a dare from her son, studied creative writing and went on to publish the 1984 novel Stones...
...Stannard-Friel complement these improvements in student services with intelligent and feasible improvements to student advocacy. Students often do not hear from their representatives after election, and many students do not even know even their representatives’ names. Chopra and Stannard-Friel will require that all representatives publish reports highlighting their plans and accomplishments twice each semester and plan frequent office hours in high traffic areas like brain breaks and House grills...
However, since the series is mid-way through a five-year contract with St. Martin’s, the publisher is bound to publish the guides through 2006 and cannot require the series to change its content—although it must approve every guide...
...about the English department’s decision to re-invite poet Tom Paulin to Harvard is its representing that decision as a stand for freedom of speech. As a poet and a public agitator against Israel, Paulin has always enjoyed complete freedom of speech. He was free to publish and publicize his poem about a Palestinian child who, he alleges, was “gunned down by the Zionist SS” (the boy in question was probably killed by a Palestinian bullet and mendaciously turned into a poster-child of the Intifada). Paulin was free to to boast...
...Harvard fan has been bored with Rose’s performance. If he leads the Crimson to another victory over Yale, Rose would be well-advised—from a business perspective, of course—to publish that dissertation on football...