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Virginia Woolf said that to fulfill creative potential, women need a room of their own. Not so for Romance Languages and Literatures Professor Alice Jardine; she needed Samuel Beckett’s room...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan and Alka R. Tandon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER/CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pen and Paper Revolutionaries: Breaking into the Boys' Club | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

During her time in Paris, Jardine studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, a previously all-male institution, but Jardine refused to be treated as a second-class citizen. “She showed up and she wanted to live in the famous dorm, the one where people like Samuel Beckett lived,” says Brian Martin, a Winthrop House tutor and long-time student of Jardine?...

Author: By Meghan M. Dolan and Alka R. Tandon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER/CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Pen and Paper Revolutionaries: Breaking into the Boys' Club | 3/18/2004 | See Source »

Over the years, critics of political scientist Samuel P. Huntington have called him a fascist, skewered him as a war criminal and bombed his Harvard office...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Critics Claim Huntington Is Xenophobic | 3/16/2004 | See Source »

...Whatever his criticisms of Bush's war, Kerry says, he is committed to finishing the mission. "My exit strategy is success," he says, "a viable, stable Iraq that can contribute to the stability and peace in the Middle East." Among the first things Kerry would do as President, says Samuel Berger, who was a National Security Adviser under Bill Clinton and has consulted with Kerry on the subject, would be to tell the American people to "put aside your misgivings or whatever you thought about this in the beginning. We cannot fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: One Year Later: Does Kerry Have A Better Idea? | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...chess tournament in Tunisia in 1967, Bobby Fischer, then 24, was pitted against another American grand master, Samuel Reshevsky. At game time, Fischer was nowhere to be found, so Reshevsky sat down opposite Fischer's empty chair, made his first move, punched the game clock and waited. And waited. With five minutes left, Fischer suddenly strode onstage and, with a series of blindingly quick moves, hammered Reshevsky into defeat. Two days later, Fischer quit the tournament and abandoned competitive chess for two years. Which raises the question, Why is the gift of genius so often given to people too stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Trouble with Genius | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

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