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...brokenhearted undergrads mourning at the President’s feet, actual Harvard students—that is, not hypothetical ones—don’t seem to care at all. Their reaction, or lack thereof, is historically consistent with the rest of Summers’ five-year stint, during which most students only perked up their ears when the big guy tripped up in the public eye. Whereas last year’s “women in science” debacle polarized the student body, all this vague bureaucratic stuff with the faculty hasn’t really...
...using Duchamp, because my class is specifically about music. But I use John Cage. Cage was enamoured of Duchamp and his work, and they played chess together every day.” To many of us, the return to academia after a ten-year stint as a freewheeling musician might seem incongruous. And indeed, although Krukowski looks back with fondness at his time at Harvard, he freely admits that, as a graduate student, he disliked the teaching. Yet, it only takes a few minutes of conversation to see his genuine enthusiasm for art’s more bookish side...
Meanwhile, on the Upper East Side, wealthy Luke McGavock has abandoned his 20-year stint as an investment banker in an effort to satisfy a new (and this time real) passion: writing a book about samurai film. Unfortunately, the prospects of literary success are about as auspicious as those of his disintegrating home life...
Following a two year stint at the New School in Manhattan, Matisyahu studied with Hasidic rabbis at New York University. Within six months, he had changed his original name—Matthew Miller—to Matisyahu...
...Silent Lies” traces Leo Hoffman in his evolution from Hungarian peasant boy to American spy. Alienated from his family by his intelligence and appearance, Leo attracts the attention of his teacher, a member of the Hungarian bourgeoisie, performing a turn of the century Teach for America stint. The teacher convinces Leo’s family to send him to Budapest for schooling. There he meets the Countess Julia, a friend of his foster mother who initiates him to the ways of sex at the tender...