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...enters the convention this weekend, Patrick, a former Dunster House English concentrator, is coming off a strong week. He picked up the endorsement of two congressmen—Rep. John F. Tierney and Rep. John W. Olver—and announced that he has raised over $470,000 in the month of May and $3.7 million over the course of the campaign. Both numbers are Massachusetts primary fundraising records...
...ABBY LOCKHART In Neil LaBute's off-Broadway black comedy Some Girl(s), with Eric McCormack, opening in May, Maura Tierney plays the girl who got away--a nice change from Abby, the girl who got to intubate...
Several weeks ago, New York Times columnist John Tierney took Harvard’s History Department to task for failing to offer a comprehensive survey course on, among other things, the American Revolution. (Instead, its faculty offer a freshman seminar on the Declaration of Independence; a class that compares the American and Haitian revolutions; and “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America?...
Amidst complaining how “Tierney seems to long for the day when American history courses line up in the catalog in neatly marked packages,” Ulrich also related an anecdote about students visiting from Beijing University. They had a solid command of hard facts, but did not have a sturdy understanding of how those historical events came to pass. “The Chinese students,” Prof. Ulrich avers, “wanted to know how ordinary people got their ideas about liberty...
...record, I regularly teach a large introductory course, (Historical Studies B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness”) in the Core. It typically enrolls 150 to 200 students. Tierney didn’t consider it worth mentioning. Nor did he discover David Armitage’s course on the Declaration of Independence, Joyce Chaplin’s on “The Nine Lives of Benjamin Franklin,” or Jill Lepore’s new core course, “Liberty and Slavery.” He did mention Vincent Brown’s course...