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Fisher's alter ego is the screenwriter Cora. In letters to her unborn baby scattered throughout the story, we find out she's naming the baby Esme, even though it sounds like a noise her nose makes, and we learn that the she can't resist cracking a joke about...

Author: By Sarah M. Rose, | Title: Fisher Lands a Whale Of a Deluded Comic Novel | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

Finally, any positive moves that Harvard makes will not necessarily be felt by all sectors of the campus population. Rudenstine himself has mentioned the "pipeline problem" as minority Ph.D.s are concentrated in specific fields, thus precluding each department access to the same percentage of qualified minority candidates. With approximately 40...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Unfairly Criticized on Hiring | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

The staff also cites the scope of Harvard's "40 departments and several graduate schools" as a reason that any hiring of minority faculty will be "slow and scattered." What kind of logic is that? Does that mean that the University should never hire any minority faculty members because they...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: University Can Afford Incentives for Minorities | 4/14/1994 | See Source »

Secondly, Tour Clones succeed, paradoxically, through their mediocrity. Just a top-ten finish here and there scattered among 30 or 35 starts is usually enough to keep a player in the Top 125 on the money list...qualifying him for a return trip to the Tour, where he can again...

Author: By Darren Kilfara, | Title: The Noble Loser | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Landscaping creates problems not immediately obvious to the casual observer. What prices do we pay for the lush green lawns of Harvard? What are those little warning flags scattered around campus hiding? A conversation I had with Facilities Maintenance a few years ago informed me that Harvard conducts only "spot...

Author: By Damon G. Guterman, | Title: How Green Is Harvard? | 4/7/1994 | See Source »

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