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...year from now I think that one measure of success will be that we will have a much more robust set of information or data about how faculty feel about being here at Harvard,” Hammonds said. “We’ll know a lot more about where we need to revamp our policies and what to do to make our policies more effective...
...year-old goddaughter. You might think the stigma of such charges would have an effect on Kelly's 10-year reign as R&B's most beloved entendrist. You'd be wrong. His new album, TP.3 Reloaded, entered Billboard's album chart at No. 1 last week, selling a robust 491,000 copies and earning mixed, but not outraged, reviews. Other famous people--Bill Clinton, Kobe Bryant--have remained popular while dealing with sex scandals, but their entanglements were with adults and their professions did not provide a constant reminder of the acts they were accused of committing...
...think of poets as private people, souls tending their own gardens. But the founding father of English literature was a man of the world. A diplomat and customs official, Chaucer was captured in battle, sued for debt and indicted for rape--a charge that was apparently dropped. In this robust account of his life, Ackroyd, a noted British novelist, points out that the author of The Canterbury Tales was not foremost a poet: "He was a government official and diplomat who, in his spare time, happened to write poetry...
...sunny economic forecast is clouded, however, by a slowdown in international trade, which grew by only 3% last year, after a robust 9% expansion in 1984. Efforts to boost trade this year could be hurt by growing protectionism. In Congress last week, President Reagan barely defeated a challenge in the Senate Finance Committee, when rebellious legislators fell one vote short of the majority needed to block impending negotiations on free trade with neighboring Canada. Meanwhile, the U.S. and the European Community are holding talks in an effort to resolve an argument over restrictions on American agricultural exports to Spain...
...salon, of the desire for a "major" utterance that leads to an overworked surface, clings to some of the early watercolors--in particular, the paintings of fisherfolk he did during a 20-month stay in the northern English coastal village of Cullercoats in 1881-82. Those robust girls, simple, natural, windbeaten and enduring, planted in big boots with arms akimbo against the elemental planes of sea, rock and sky, are also images of a kind of moralizing earnestness that was common in French salon art a century ago. Idealizations of the peasant, reflecting an anxiety that folk culture was being...