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Other board members announced on Friday include treasurer McComma Grayson '00; secretary Alicia E. Johnson '01; publicity chair John A. Burton '01; arts and entertainment chair Tawney B. Pearson '01; publications chair Brandon K. Walston '01; lecture series chair Kamil E. Redmond '00; public service chair Charisa A. Smith '00; online and technology chair Skylar H. Byrd '00, also a Crimson editor; alumni representative Nicole K. Sherwood '00; and senior class representative Dana B. Bennett...
...skeptical students gave Karol mixed reviews. "I didn't think that he was anything special," said Bryan M. Tawney '92, who admitted he was a tough audience. "He was full of it--just the right type for Morton Downey...
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...charge that they destroyed Rome. The great city was ravaged, he writes, not by the barbarians in A.D. 410, but through imperial plundering in the 6th and 7th centuries by Byzantine Emperors Justinian and Constans II. Johnson also challenges the once popular thesis-of Max Weber and R.H. Tawney among others-that Calvinism helped nurture capitalism. In staunchly Calvinistic Scotland, Johnson notes, capitalism was long stifled. What did launch capitalism, he argues, was the decline of churchly power-whether in Calvinistic or Catholic states...
Mansfield said he does not think the journalistic or popular appeal of the books was a negative factor in the department's decision, explaining that Terrill has done scholarly work, such as the Tawney book, in addition to his journalistic work...