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...pursuit, Skocpol seems to have had assistance from Bok. The interim president summoned Skocpol to lead the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, providing her with a significant resume-boost and a highly visible soapbox upon which to address the Faculty...
...pursuit, Skocpol seems to have had assistance from Bok. The interim president summoned Skocpol to lead the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, providing her with a significant resume-boost and a highly visible soapbox upon which to address the Faculty...
...rare moment of levity in Kaldor's super-serious pursuit of art. This can be traced back, he says, to the five months he and his family spent in Paris after fleeing the Communist takeover of Budapest in 1948. "My parents took me to the Louvre and the Mus?e d'Art Moderne," he recalls, "and I just fell in love with art." After Paris they settled in Sydney, where Kaldor would eventually take over the family textile business. But it was among the international avant-garde that he felt most at home. In 1969, Kaldor invited then-unknown conceptualists Christo...
...image of campus life. It also gives false hope to the hoards of desperate males from Harvard and MIT that work up the courage to brave the Senate bus—a.k.a. “Fuck Truck”—to Wellesley every weekend in the quixotic pursuit of a one-night stand or to witness wanton acts of lesbianism...
...this culture of resignation presents an opportunity to examine the motivations that drive us and the satisfaction that we seek as we live and work at elite universities. Unfortunately, at institutions like Oxford and Harvard, that discussion is conducted only superficially, railroaded by students’ single-minded pursuit of prestige. It is time that we at Harvard, recipients of such extraordinary privilege, abandon that hollow pastime, put our complaints into perspective, and find satisfaction in the present...