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...Learning from Performers” series given by the Office For the Arts (OFA), Prince and accompanist Alex Rybeck shared the floor with seven Harvard undergraduate musicians, transforming the rather austere Lowell Lecture Hall into a forum that was at once a cabaret and a seminar...

Author: By Laura E. Kolbe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OFA Has Faith In Her Lessons | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

Sachs accidentally inserted himself into history. A star at Harvard--he was a tenured professor at 28--he found himself in 1985 at a seminar about Bolivia, which at the time was being battered by hyperinflation. I can fix that, he blurted. The Bolivians accepted the offer. Sachs neglected to tell them that he had never actually worked on a real live economy. But he soon left for Bolivia and made good on his word, stabilizing the currency. His work for the developing world had begun. He would later develop a radical economic program for the Solidarity-led Polish government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffery Sachs | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...achieved only through an approach that considers everything from geography to infrastructure to family structure. "Right now, I'm just running flat between all these various assignments," he said last week. "I got back from Ethiopia yesterday. Did a dinner talk. Flew to Washington. I'm hosting a seminar this evening. I'm at the U.N. the next two days and then off to Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jeffery Sachs | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

Last semester, de la Durantaye taught a class on the post-World War II novel and a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov. While writing his dissertation at Cornell, de la Durantaye had become fascinated by the author’s “thoroughgoing independence of mind.” What began as a mere chapter devoted to Nabokov became the whole dissertation...

Author: By Eliza G. Hornig, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Clothes Aren’t It | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

Last semester, de la Durantaye taught a class on the post-World War II novel and a seminar on Vladimir Nabokov. While writing his dissertation at Cornell, de la Durantaye had become fascinated by the author’s “thoroughgoing independence of mind.” What began as a mere chapter devoted to Nabokov became the whole dissertation...

Author: By Eliza G. Hornig, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Clothes Aren’t It | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

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