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...President Derek C. Bok in 1984, Verba will step down at the end of the academic year, now-Interim President Bok announced yesterday. Under Verba, Harvard joined forces with search engine Google to make thousands of books available online for free. He is the longest-serving library chief since Thaddeus Harris, who led Harvard’s libraries from...
...Rhetoric has been heated. Thaddeus Matthews, a politically independent African American whose widely read local blog is part scandal sheet, part political tip sheet, early in the campaign dismissed "Joke Ford" as an uncredentialed political novice and high school dropout who lacked his congressman brother's finesse and did odd jobs for his father. That has also been the perspective of an influential corps of liberal white bloggers who pooled their efforts on Cohen's behalf during the primary...
...That's what I would want for myself." He manages to pack a war's worth of heresy against Army doctrine into a 50-min. class. He presses cadets to enunciate a meaningful difference between insurgent leader Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi and West Point icon and Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Pole who was the foreign fighter of his era. What is a terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies...
...credits her thesis advisor, Willson Professor of Astronomy Patrick Thaddeus, with helping her adjust to life in America and find an academic niche...
...spotted her immediately as being lively and intelligent and asking good questions,” says Thaddeus, who first met Mohamed in one of his seminars. “She is one of the most impressive students in overall terms I’ve ever had. She’s just...