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Countless colleagues cite Knowles’ outward charm—“extremely smooth and very much the Oxford don,” in the words of Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller—as a crucial catalyst for advancing his agenda, which ranged from the thankless task of cutting the Faculty’s budget deficit in the early 1990’s to luring prominent scholars to Harvard in his more recent efforts to increase the size of the Faculty...
...latest ruckus involves the makeup of the commission itself. The dispute centers around Peter Kirsanow, an intense Cleveland labor lawyer with a smooth-shaven head and Salvador Dali moustache. In December George Bush appointed Kirsanow, the former head of the conservative Center for New Black Leadership, to fill the seat of Victoria Wilson, a liberal former book publisher who is best known for editing the vampire novels of Anne Rice. The move threatened liberal Mary Frances Berry's control of the commission: with Wilson seated, there are five liberals and three conservatives; Kirsanow would even the votes at four each...
Tierney does not allow herself to be distracted by the running commentary on Alewife (a member of the herring family) and on the surprisingly smooth and durable pavement (which has textile underneath...
Like Sarah Hughes of the U.S., Slutskaya is a natural and powerful jumper. At last year's world championships, she strung together - and successfully landed - three jumps in a row. But her approach to Utah wasn't always a smooth glide. Just two years ago the two-time European champion failed to qualify for the Russian world team and seriously considered retiring: "I ask myself, What do I want to do? Go back to school? Never. I love figure skating. I can't live without it." If she keeps her jumps in control, Slutskaya may well become the first Russian...
Since then, Summers has met personally with West and DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., who is chair of the department, to try to smooth over the situation...