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...Divinity School. Besides these two references and an expression of confidence from Levine, the press release said nothing else about the e-mail vendor.Harry R. Lewis ’68, a computer science professor and former dean of the College, says he has confidence in the negotiations that took place and the contract that came out of it.“My sense from knowing what I know and reading the press releases is that the people who negotiated this contract with Mail2World have done an extremely careful job,” Lewis says. “That?...
...increasing the pace of faculty hiring anytime soon, a number of professors expressed concern that restructuring FAS may be a euphemism for shrinking the size of the Faculty.History lecturer Adam G. Beaver, who is also the department’s assistant director of undergraduate studies, said the FAS administration took a “very drastic measure early” by freezing most of its running faculty searches.“The long-term health of the University lies with the long-term strength of its faculty,” said Economics Department Chair James H. Stock...
...American Violet,” combines political and social advocacy with old-fashioned dramatic storytelling, two cornerstones of Haney’s approach to film.Though he founded his first start-up, Fuel Tech, when he was an 18-year-old freshman in Straus, his film career took years to begin. His first documentary, “Gift of the Game,” explored U.S.-Cuba relations through baseball and Ernest Hemingway. Later documentaries centered on other social, political, and environmental concerns, covering topics from ocean preservation and whale biology to the Caribbean sugar cane industry.In 2002, Haney was listening...
Senior theses are notorious for being time-consuming and frustrating, yet ultimately rewarding. Music concentrator Michael L. Schachter ’09 took this characterization to new heights with his thesis, an original composition spanning many genres and lasting nearly an hour. Schachter undoubtedly has the artistic chops to pull off such an ambitious undertaking. He started playing the piano at age five and began to improvise and compose shortly afterward. The Boston-area native soon became interested in performing jazz, and he took composition lessons at the New England Conservatory throughout high school. When college rolled around, Schachter chose...
...Student Art Show garnered a significant amount of interest, receiving over 500 submissions from the Harvard community. “The amount of interest really blew us away,” Wang says. “Just the sheer number really took us by surprise. Not only the number, but the diversity...