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...cost-reduction measures to be implemented over the next year. But for now, department leaders have expressed confusion regarding Smith’s call to restructure FAS.“I don’t know what on earth he means [by restructuring],” said English professor W. James Simpson. “Does it mean cutting certain programs? I’m worried that decisions of that kind will be extremely grave decisions that would be very disruptive.”John M. Duffy, chair of the classics department, said he is similarly unsure of the meaning...
...comer Nicole Beharie as female protagonist Dee Roberts. Joining Beharie in the film are veteran actors like Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, and Charles Dutton.The 2000 U.S. presidential election constitutes both the political and visual subtexts of the storyline, with frequent shots of the campaigns of George W. Bush and Al Gore ’69 spliced into the film. Not only does this maintain the historical accuracy of the story, it also reveals a disturbing layer of irony in campaign rhetoric.“At the very time that George Bush was running for president, talking about...
...said AEPi President Samuel M. Gross ’10, explaining why he valued the celebration of Israeli Independence Day. “It’s great for people who go for so long without land to finally have their land.” Jason W. Schnier ’11, the chair of Harvard College Progressive Jewish Alliance, said that yesterday’s events were not political, but rather that they represented simply a “celebration of culture and of Jewish statehood.” Likewise, attendee Michael M. Kohen ’09 said...
...former HCS president. Funded by Faculty of Arts and Sciences Information Technology and the Undergraduate Council, “HCS-NextGen” includes the mailing list service, an updated web hosting service for students and clubs, and more services that, according to former HCS president Grant W. Dasher ’09, will be announced in the coming weeks. Dasher said that the impetus behind “HCS-NextGen” was a combination of antiquated technology, mailing list slowdowns, and limited storage space. “We had capacity problems in our existing systems. We were running...
...central character is Richard Feynman (Jesse W. Barron ’09), a physicist who played a supporting role in the Manhattan Project. Lured to the Nevada desert by Oppenheimer, Feynman divides his time between his work and his wife, who is dying of tuberculosis. Her real name was Arline Greenbaum, but here it’s Eurydice, and Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08 is appropriately enigmatic and cipher-like in the semi-mythological role...