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...take English 10a freshman year and that put me off English.” After working for the public television documentary program, “NOW with Bill Moyers,” Dovey moved back to South Africa. Dovey found that the resources in Cape Town, however, couldn’t stack up to Harvard’s well-stocked VES department. Out of what she calls “desperation” for creative outlet, Dovey enrolled in a Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Cape Town, where she wrote “Blood Kin?...
...interviews, he rarely mentions his Harvard years.Later this month, Whitehead will embark on a tour to promote his new novel, “Sag Harbor,” an excerpt of which appeared in The New Yorker’s Winter Fiction Issue. Last time he was in town, in 2006, he drew a crowd of 75 people to the Brattle Theatre, according to Heather Gain of Harvard Book Store. This time when he is in Boston, he will read at Porter Square Books on May 7. When asked about the reading, Ellen Jarrett, who is in charge of organizing...
During the question-and-answer session of yesterday’s town hall meeting, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith hosted a series of questions from concerned staff workers, perplexed professors, and student activists. Faced with a $220 million deficit over the next two years, every member of the assembly had some reason to worry. “Each of us represents his or her own segment of a huge, complex organization,” said Robert Darnton, director of the Harvard University Library. “And the questions naturally take the form...
...response to a looming deficit of $220 million for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences over the next two years, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith called for a broad-based restructuring of the University’s largest school at a town hall meeting yesterday...
With his administration on the brink of a sweeping fiscal review that could lead to layoffs, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith will host a town hall meeting today, discussing the state of the Faculty’s finances before an unprecedented group of stakeholders. In lieu of the regular Faculty meeting that had been scheduled for today, Smith will discuss the budgetary challenges facing the Faculty before opening the floor for questions from professors, staff, and selected student leaders gathered in Sanders Theatre, according to FAS spokesman Robert P. Mitchell. The town hall meeting comes...