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English professor Helen Vendler invoked the words of an English poet, Robert Graves, to describe the decidedly Irish Seamus Heaney, who read from his poems to a sold out audience at Sanders Theater yesterday. “But nothing promised that is not performed,” Vendler quoted, inspired by her colleague’s tireless devotion to his students during his years as both the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and Professor of Poetry at Oxford. When Heaney, a Nobel laureate, took the stage, he described it as “one of the greatest...
...Robert W. Mack ’71, seeing hundreds of fellow LGBT alumni at Harvard this weekend was “like a mirage or a dream.”Alumni from all but two of Harvard’s living classes descended on Cambridge to celebrate the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus’s 25th anniversary, the country’s first-ever reunion specifically for gay alumni. Attendees and organizers said the conference is a sign of years’ worth of growth.“It is a culminating moment. There has been such an extraordinary...
...There won’t be as much variation [in grades], so it’ll be harder to pick out the best people,” said Robert W. Allen, the current president of the Law Review...
...debate participants will include Barack Obama, the nation's first black presidential nominee of a major party, would only add to the symbolism. The high-profile event is a chance "to invite the nation and the world to visit us and see Ole Miss today," says university chancellor Robert Khayat. "This is a very different place from 1962. I'm confident that they will see that." (Click here for photos of Barack Obama's family tree...
...Despite the mounting tension, Defense Secretary Robert Gates concedes that neither the clandestine U.S. raids or the increased efforts by the Pakistani military have done much to suppress the insurgency. "If you ask me today - after the successes that we've had against al-Qaeda in Iraq - where the greatest threat to the [U.S.] homeland lies," he said Tuesday, "I would tell you it's in western Pakistan...