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...fact, “Parenthood” would have premiered on the same night as “Modern Family”—September 23 of last year—if actress Maura Tierney??s breast cancer diagnosis hadn’t delayed its debut until March 2. Ed O’Neill and Craig T. Nelson, the shows’ respective patriarchs, even vaguely resemble one another. However, by straining to be emotionally hard-hitting, “Parenthood” falls flat...
...been reauthorized since 1998, a delay that Massachusetts Congressman John F. Tierney??a major proponent of the bill through his work on the Education and Labor Committee—attributed to partisan politics...
That last class is taught by 300th Anniversary University Professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. And she was sufficiently angered by Tierney??s column that she wrote a lengthy response, which landed errantly in The Crimson’s editorial page...
...Tierney??s version of this canard goes this way: “You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane. Instead, there’s a course on the diaries of ordinary citizens during the Revolution, and another...that considers the American and Haitian Revolutions as “a continuous sequence of radical challenges to established authority.” It is hard to know which alarms him more—the diaries or the notion that revolutions provoke...
...grading papers, to low-caste graduate students or visiting lecturers,” Tierney wrote. “That’s why Summers had to push them to teach survey courses and other basics.” Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the 300th Anniversary University Professor, responded to Tierney??s column by submitting an Op-Ed piece to the Times. So far, Ulrich said, the newspaper has declined to publish her piece because the Op-Ed page doesn’t run responses to previous columns. Some professors are also offering to talk to students about...