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...apply to Harvard using only their first initials on the applications and had the pleasure of seeing them accepted, then the pain of seeing them rejected for their sex, because at the time Harvard admitted no female, even if she was the world's leading Egyptian authority or Saudi scholar or Yemenist. Frederic Ogden Nash was born on August 19, 1902, in Rye, New Yorque. In print he might have signed himself Fred Nash, except that it lacks class, rhythm, torque. And if, like his mother and aunts, he had initialized his first name, Nash's literary rise might have...
...ushered in hundreds of billions of dollars in foreign investment. But they couldn't whip the plague of corrupt elites, absentee judicial systems and addiction to foreign capital that made Latin American capitalism as ripe for abuse and collapse as an Enron office suite. Says Stanford University Latin America scholar Terry Karl: "The Washington Consensus just further concentrated economic and political power in a region that already had the worst inequality in the world...
Currier House Master and religious history scholar William A. Graham has been appointed dean of the Harvard Divinity School, following a nearly year-long search, University President Lawrence H. Summers announced Monday...
...have known Bill Graham as a colleague and friend for more than a decade,” Robert Putnam, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at the Kennedy School of Government, wrote in an e-mail. “He’s a major league scholar of religion and a thoroughly decent and thoughtful human being. I expect him to be an outstanding dean of the divinity school...
...DIED. CHAIM POTOK, 73, scholar, ordained rabbi and best selling novelist whose books described conflicts between fathers and sons and tradition and change; in Merion, Pennsylvania. In such novels as The Chosen and My Name is Asher Lev, Potok (born Herman Harold Potok) gave an insider's view of Orthodox Jewish life in the U.S. and described his own struggle between secularism and orthodoxy. But his books found a universal readership and Potok referred to himself as 'an American writer writing about a small and particular American world.' DIED. MILDRED 'MILLIE' DEEGAN, 82, star of women's professional baseball...