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Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer, who has taught Borges’ work in her graduate seminar on aesthetics, wrote in an e-mail that her reaction to the news “alternates between great sadness for the loss and humor, because of course both stories perform the joke typical in Borges of purposefully confusing original with copy...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Borges Manuscripts Lost | 12/11/2006 | See Source »

...whom eventually received invitations.Over the next three years, Reyes made a series of extended visits to the center that enabled him to interact with faculty and take advantage of the University’s research facilities. It was on one of these visits that Reyes met Doris Sommer, Ira Jewell Williams, Jr., professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and director of the Cultural Agents Initiative. Through Sommer, Reyes became familiar with the work of another visiting Latin American fellow at Harvard.“We began conversations, and I mentioned to Pedro a reference to Antanas Mockus who was currently...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Despite Pitfalls, Reyes Dazzles | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

...Conservative author Christina Hoff Sommer once said that The Vagina Monologues has inspired "an army" of campus feminists who are "very elitist." Care to respond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vagina Dialogue | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...mail. “Examples range from organs for transplantation to mercenary armies to for-profit prisons, schools, and hospitals.” Sandel plans to incorporate those themes into a new course he will be instructing upon his return. Williams, Jr. Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Doris Sommer will be dedicating much of her time to Cultural Agents, an interfaculty initiative at Harvard that explores the use of art as a social resource. “The point of...the interfaculty initiative is that art contributes to society because it explores ideas and practices,” wrote...

Author: By Nicholas A. Ciani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Profs Spend Off Year on Research | 9/15/2006 | See Source »

...flexible synthetic material currently used in the airline and rail industries. The car sits low to the ground; air shafts built into the underside of the frame channel air through to the rear, pushing the car closer to the road, which adds to stability and reduces air resistance. Sommer claims that this design saves weight, improves aerodynamics and still provides resistance in a crash to the same level as other sports cars and subcompacts. The result is the Loremo LS, a car with a two-cylinder, 20-horsepower, turbo-diesel engine that maxes out at 160 km/h and is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Driving On The Light Side | 7/9/2006 | See Source »

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