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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being raised "poor, rural, immensely dependent on the weather, [and] in relative isolation," gives. It is this shared experience that makes him more comfortable at the Two Gray Hills Trading Post in northern New Mexico than at a faculty meeting at Albuquerque's University of New Mexico, where he taught journalism for several years...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Hillerman Interweaves Mystery and Mysticism | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

This mystical edge might be unexpected in a writer who is a journalist by training and warns all interviewers that he has taught courses in interviewing. But Hillerman does not see the two types of writing as exclusive, and most of his advice about writing can be applied to any genre...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Hillerman Interweaves Mystery and Mysticism | 3/13/1997 | See Source »

...type of liberal arts education taught here seems to be at odds with the study of a subject as pragmatic as business, even at the graduate level. At Harvard, the breadth of subjects in the undergraduate curriculum need not have any direct consequence for one's career. The implication is that the practical aspects of one's education are not necessarily the most crucial. A triumph of intellectual curiosity over more pragmatic sensibilities, American students spend four years (British undergraduates only three) studying subjects without having to specialize in the fields that they will pursue...

Author: By Joshua A. Katzin, | Title: Cents and Sensibility | 3/12/1997 | See Source »

...Boston Housing Authority, the Sociedad Latina in Roxbury, Action for Boston Community Development (ABCD) and the Fenway Community Development Corporation have been involved in various aspects of the Harvard Program. For example, ABCD has taught the participants basic job skills, including accounting and word processing...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, | Title: Harvard Trains Welfare Recipients | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

While at Harvard, Purcell taught Physics 198, "Widely Applied Physics," which the department recently revived as Physics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Physicist Edward Purcell Dies | 3/11/1997 | See Source »

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