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...person, Barr plays down the controversy. "We're definitely not trying to dumb down poetry," he says. "We're not trying to introduce the notion that we would judge quality by book sales or even accessibility. But if poetry has somehow lost touch with a broader readership, there's an opportunity to reverse that. People are going to love poetry when they get back to it." As that last statement suggests, Barr has a tendency to express himself in marketingspeak, which may irritate his critics as much as the actual content of what he's saying. "It's easy...
After I left Harvard in the 1980s, I did not “stay in touch.” While I truly enjoyed and appreciated my undergraduate years at Harvard, two additional years of eating in the Freshman Union and vicariously experiencing freshman angst as a Proctor in Wigglesworth kept me from ever romanticizing or becoming nostalgic for my own undergraduate days. I don’t know if it was swabbing stairwells on Sunday mornings, or chasing squirrels that tumbled down Wigg B’s chimney with a broom, or locating freshmen who had decamped to follow...
...There aren’t too many Cambodian refugees in Boston.” Through BRYE, though, Leng was able to work with Vietnamese refugees in Dorchester. “I could connect with those kinds of kids....Working with BRYE pushed me to get in touch with my background.” “I have an odd reputation in BRYE because I’ve never held an administrative position, but I’ve always been a groupie,” Leng says. Leng, who also served as Currier House Committee Chair, planned to enter graduate...
...candidate, late in the search process, according to an individual familiar with Varmus’ activities. Varmus, 67, met with committee members several times for interviews as late as January, according to the source. On the sidelines, he drew support from former Brown President Vartan Gregorian, an individual in touch with the committee said...
...adroit financial manager as well. She told the search committee in the fall that she was not a candidate for Harvard’s top job, citing her prior pledge to remain at Cambridge through 2010 and her happiness at returning to her English roots, an individual in touch with Richard and the committee said. By all indications, the committee was disappointed. Members repeatedly attempted to persuade Richard to fly across the Atlantic for an interview, but she continued to refuse, the individual said...