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...make Harvard a great 21st-century university, faculty members said, she needs to help develop new connections between the hard sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.“If one gets out of step with the other, you’ll have Harvard becoming a pale shadow of MIT,” Mendelsohn said.Despite the magnitude of these challenges, professors said they trust Faust’s leadership skills and vision.“I think she’s ideally suited to create the dialogues and the give and take that will make Allston possible...
Seemingly content to live in the shadow of Memorial Church for most of its life, the inauspicious Sever Hall finally got its close-up after over a century of quiet existence on the edge of the Yard...
...that is why, in the shadow of the Old State Capitol, where Lincoln once called on a divided house to stand together, where common hopes and common dreams still, I stand before you today to announce my candidacy for President of the United States...
...check. This is, ultimately, a book about fathers and sons: Coyne must come to terms with his abusive father, and with the avenging ghost, who is the father of another key character. It's an appropriate enough theme for Hill, because every artist has to work in the shadow of his or her father-in-art, and symbolically, Oedipally overcome him, and in Hill's case his father-in-art is also his literal, biological father. Heart-Shaped Box isn't about appeasing fathers, and learning to love them, and seeing that they, too, are human beings and not monsters...
...Moreover, Indyk says, the deal casts a shadow over the Administration's efforts to form a strong coalition with Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the other moderate Arab states on a range of issues, including not only the Israel-Palestinian issue but also opposing Iran's nuclear defiance and operations in Iraq, Lebanon and the Palestinian territories...