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...reassure students and bibliophobes that just knowing about a book as opposed to having read it is no reason for shame. "Even the most cultivated among us have enormous gaps in their knowledge," Bayard says. "Many great intellectuals - Paul Valéry, [Michel de] Montaigne, Oscar Wilde - often spoke about books they hadn't read, and didn't feel guilty about...
...people unqualified or uninterested in the exhibit, the VES staff decided on an internship program, reaching out to students from Harvard, MIT, and other local colleges to publicize, maintain, and man the exhibit. After seeing a flyer, Jose “Enzo” Camacho ’07 spoke to Lambert-Beatty, one of his professors, and applied. He is now one of eight interns working at the exhibit.“I always had an interest in experimental art, and had a problem with the fact that video [art] was supposed to be mainstream,” said...
Murphy also spoke out in favor of providing graduate students residences in the Quad houses by moving undergraduates into newer Allston dormitories...
Jeffrey A. Zucker ’86 is expected to be named the Chairman and Chief Executive of NBC Universal, a unit of General Electric and the world’s fifth-largest media company, according to inside sources who spoke to the Los Angeles Times. Zucker will replace Robert C. Wright, the NBC chairman who has occupied the position for 21 years. Zucker has been the chief executive of the NBC Universal Television Group since December 2005. He was responsible for all programming across the conglomerate’s extensive television properties, which include the NBC network as well...
...eight-to-one person because I have very different ideas about what I want out of the council than my peers,” Kelley said. Monday’s meeting also commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Cambridge Peace Commission, a local group of peace advocates. Eight members spoke on the Commission’s behalf, including seventy-nine year-old former schoolteacher Francis J.S. Pierce, who described herself as “retired, but not tired.” Pierce expressed her support for the Commission, saying that “the decisions that we make today will...