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...indications, however, Elena’s assimilation to Harvard life was rapid...
...said in a statement on Tuesday, April 25. In a letter obtained by The Crimson, a Random House lawyer put it more bluntly, writing to Little, Brown that “we are certain that some literal copying actually occurred here.”More developments unfolded at a rapid pace. That Thursday, Little, Brown asked bookstores to take “Opal Mehta” off their shelves until a revised edition could be put together. By May 2—after similarities were found between Viswanathan’s novel and books by Meg Cabot, Salman Rushdie...
...leave that pace behind when he arrived in Cambridge. Initiatives were introduced at breakneck speed, stretching the University’s collective attention to its limits. This type of administrative ambition would normally be unwelcome at a decentralized academic institution, but Summers’ presidency provided two reasons why rapid change might work at the traditionally intractable Harvard. First, in 2001, rapid change was just what the presidential search committee was looking for and, seemingly, just what Harvard needed. After a decade in which the University was relatively stagnant in most respects other then its endowment figures and clandestine land...
Each week the DCCC brands one congressional Republican the "Rubber Stamp of the Week," to mock fervent support for President Bush, and holds a conference call with reporters in the member's district to hammer the point home. "Our rapid-response operation is presidential timber," Emanuel brags...
...Dana L. Farnsworth, former Director of University Health Services, told The Crimson. The largest single construction effort the University had undertaken to date was also built during this period. The 20-story William James Hall opened in 1963 as home to the departments of Social Relations and Psychology. The rapid construction meant that the face of Harvard underwent striking changes during this expansion.“The assertive modernism of the new buildings at Harvard (and other universities) celebrated the booming present and the promising future, not the storied past,” Morton and Phyllis Keller wrote in their...