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...takes a translator to know a translator, or at least so it seems in the case of author Haruki Murakami, Harvard Professor of Japanese Literature Jay Rubin, and visiting scholar and Professor of American Literature at the University of Tokyo Motoyuki Shibata. The three top professional translators are resident at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies this academic year. And they’ve taken the opportunity to get together to talk about literature and translation and to collaborate. Thus far, Shibata has collaborated informally and formally on translations with Rubin and Murakami, who calls...
...change in his trajectory came shortly after he graduated from Berkeley in 1988. Seidel traveled to Germany in order to learn the language and to continue training as a classics scholar. While in Berlin, Seidel watched the events of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre unfold on both East German and West German television...
...part of the regular heath exam. Of the approximately 3,500 subjects who stripped down for the camera, those deemed to have poor posture were required to take a corrective health class, the New York Times Magazine reported in 1995. W.H. Sheldon, a Columbia University physique scholar, had sold the idea of “posture pictures” to all the Ivy League colleges. Sheldon believed that physical characteristics could reveal facts about a person’s intelligence, temperament, integrity, and future achievement. Some Harvard posture pictures ended up in Sheldon’s book on body types...
...human. Moreover, it is what we need to hear as Harvard students. In the cut and thrust of a good college career, R. Kelly is the only true prophet for the student who embraces all aspects of campus life. He is the guiding light for the sinning scholar who travels from the Kong to Lamont in the twilight hours, hoping to purge the pecadillos of Saturday night vis-à-vis a sick study session. Because when it comes down to it, each of us is not just “one thing.” You don?...
...papers Van Parijs published during his time at the university contained fabricated data. The New Scientist article identifies two studies published while Van Parijs was conducting research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a Harvard teaching hospital, and one published while he was a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech as questionable.The New Scientist investigation identified “uncanny similarities between supposedly different results presented in at least three highly regarded immunology papers authored by Van Parijs” during his time at Harvard and Caltech.Caltech began an inquiry into Van Parijs’ work on Oct. 6, Director...