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...improve undergraduate education. While Faust—currently the dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—stressed that she was not picked because of her gender, she did acknowledge the significance of her selection as Harvard’s first female president. “It symbolizes important changes in the place of women in higher education,” she said. “I’m the symbol, but the reality that lies behind me is much broader than Harvard, or me, or even higher education.” Faust also discussed the influence...
Harry Potter as a literary icon, of course, is not a sex symbol for many of the series’ readers (except perhaps the tweens). But the transition from the page to the screen has led to the over-sexing of our young hero. The whole thing has become just a little too Hollywood, a little too perfect...
...being in this play—“Equus” is one of the best plays I’ve ever seen—but its publicity campaign somehow cuts a little too close to the bone. The problem is that his status as a pseudo-sex-symbol was suggested even before these photos were taken: Harry Potter was already a little too sexy...
...overseers enthusiastically confirmed that Drew Gilpin Faust would become Harvard’s 28th president.Board members continued to exit the building. Overseer Richard I. Melvoin ’73 signalled his support for the president-elect by donning a crimson tie emblazoned with golden trees, the symbol of the Radcliffe Institute that Faust currently leads.Frances D. Fergusson, one of the three overseer members of the nine-person presidential search committee that recommended Faust for the post, emerged a little after three o’clock and described how Faust was informed of her official selection.“When...
...Friday night’s game, blowing out Cornell, 9-1, at Lynah Rink.“It was just one of those games where the puck found its way to the net for us,” Chu said. “A 9-1 score is a symbol of a little bit of luck and hard work.”An explosive Crimson squad took the ice in the second period, as a slew of power-play attacks saw the score balloon to 8-1. Just 1:20 into the frame, Weaver notched her second goal...