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...associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will take the reins of the Greencastle, Ind. institution on July 1. “He was, far and above, the best candidate,” said Sarah R. Wallace, chairwoman of the DePauw presidential search committee. “The selection committee voted unanimously to endorse him in one vote. He had many attributes that we were looking for in terms of his abilities, experience, and communication skills.” Dean of the Faculty Michael D. Smith, who said he has known Casey since graduate school...
Karp says he and Langer’s team recently created an elastic, waterproof, and biodegradable polymer called “biorubber” in the search for a safe tape-based clinical adhesive. Biorubber, Karp said, is “bio-compatible,” and it would not cause a serious inflammatory response if used in surgery...
...readers are left wondering what exactly they’re supposed to glean from Kennedy’s nearly 200-page struggle with history, racial self-determination, and the concept of selling out. We do learn that Clarence Thomas isn’t really a sellout and that the search for one will not prove useful in helping us achieve racial equality. But what exactly are we to do with our newfound knowledge that when we call someone a sellout, we’re merely fighting shadows? —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu...
...them succeed. True art provides more than entertainment or information. There’s something else there, something elusive. Novelist Vladimir Nabokov argued that you feel art in your spine, where it prompts a “telltale tingle” of aesthetic bliss.In search of this tingle, I filed into the packed theater and took my seat. There was a golden pole on a stand at one side of the stage. I tried not to speculate about what it was going to be used for. “You came to see naked ladies, right?” founder...
...hasty peace deal and the nomination of one of the rebels as a presidential advisor have led to an uneasy peace. In Sam Ouandja, the rebels, like headmaster Patrice, are scrabbling to make ends meet. Temporarily downing their Kalashnikovs, they pick up shovels and head to the mines in search of diamonds, before retiring to the marketplace in the afternoon to strut their stuff and show who is really in charge...