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...faculty at the Business School in 1991, has spent the past 24 years in Cambridge. Before becoming a professor, she earned a Ph.D. from Harvard in government. Barnard College, a top-ranked liberal arts college, is affiliated with Columbia. Spar has no previous ties to either school. Anna Quindlen, a columnist and the chair of the Barnard Board of Trustees, said in a statement that the search committee found in Spar a candidate who was “a charismatic intellectual deeply committed to the value of single-sex education for women.” At Barnard, Spar will oversee...
...usually use this space to vent whatever frustration happens to be bouncing around my brain—to paraphrase Anna Quindlen, I try to walk the fine line between being pointedly eloquent and being a pain in the butt. But there are times when even a curmudgeon like myself should give credit where credit is due, and so I find myself devoting my 800 words to asking not what went wrong but what went right...
...Babel (Little, Brown; 264 pages) to The Lovely Bones--but it is tempting. Both are by women, both first-time novelists, both from the same publisher. The Dogs of Babel arrives almost exactly a year after The Lovely Bones and with some of the same buzz--both scored Anna Quindlen's coveted endorsement, for example. But while The Dogs of Babel has many of the virtues of its predecessor and will no doubt please many of the same readers, it won't please them quite as much...
...societies dominated by male values” condone “violence and killing” and “psychotic behavior”), and she also points out that men are “clinically and psychologically dead.” Columnist Anna Quindlen sums up her philosophy on gender issues: “It’s simply that I think women are superior...
...recounts in a mockingly serious voice how Quindlen writes of an encounter with a wise homeless man who tells her to “look at the view, young lady...