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...University celebrated the culmination of its long quest to establish the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS) Friday afternoon, as dozens of donors and Harvard affiliates gathered in the lobby of the center’s Knafel building for a dedication to celebrate the new complex.Sidney R. Knafel ’52, the building’s namesake, jump-started Harvard’s effort to unite faculty from the Government and History departments and nearly a dozen centers of international study with a $15 million gift almost nine years ago.The complex, situated east of Memorial Hall...
...winning the doubles title at the Cissie Leary Memorial and the ITA Eastern Regionals and reaching the quarterfinals in the ITA/Riviera All-Americans and the ITA National Indoors. The women’s tennis team does not return to action until the end of January, when it begins its quest for a fourth consecutive Ivy League title. “Our doubles teams are pretty much set—we know for the spring who’s going to play with who,” O’Riain said. “We’re all really...
...Perfect Ganesh. Two aging matrons take a vacation in India that turns into a needed spiritual quest. Terrence McNally's surreal off-Broadway tragicomedy co-starred the Indian god of the title appearing in many guises and taking the audience on a similar journey of the soul...
...toward a gay sister he loved and his implacable cruelty toward homosexual boys he did not know,” Wright hypothesizes.Second, through a series of interviews with members of the Wilcox family, Wright adds significant new insights into the character of Lester, the grief-stricken mill manager whose quest to avenge his younger brother’s death sparked Harvard’s Gay Scare. “[A]n entity as extreme as a gay-purging tribunal needed exceptional energy and passion to propel it into existence,” Wright tells us. “That energy...
...Haiti in 1983, he was studying medicine and anthropology and hoping to become a doctor for the poor, perhaps in Africa. He eventually became America's most celebrated doctor for the poor, made famous by Pulitzer-prizewinning author Tracy Kidder in his 2003 book, Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World...