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Former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who tapped Faust to lead two gender diversity task forces created in the wake of his comments on women in science two years ago, praised the selection of the Radcliffe dean...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani and Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Faust Confirmed as 28th President | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

...Present.” That’s a tall order for any play, particularly one that clocks in at about an hour and a half. So it feels odd to say that “Doubt” should be tighter, quicker, faster-paced–anything to wake up the play’s latent vitality...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "Doubt" Has A Hesitant Debut | 2/11/2007 | See Source »

...father - we gain sympathy for him. Coyne changes, gaining humor in desperation, warming to the girlfriend he took for granted, and reconnecting with the music that he has all but abandoned. When confronted with real inhumanity, as opposed to his own affected coldness, Coyne softens unexpectedly, and his emotions wake up. We start to like him and sympathize with him - which makes us all the more vulnerable to the shock treatments of Heart-Shaped Box, since, as Hill observes, "Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Son Also Frightens | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

From the beginning, media speculation over the Harvard presidential search focused on the possibility that the nine-member search committee might select a female president—better yet, a female scientist—to serve in Summers’ wake...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett and Katherine M. Gray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: After Three Centuries, a Woman | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

...similar expressions in the works of Nietzsche could have claimed some contextual basis; both James and Nietzsche were concerned with many of the same problems during the same time period. Perhaps this tendency, seen everywhere from popular magazines to university course catalogs, represents an upswing of eclecticism in the wake of post-modern academic approaches, or an effort to fulfill the Wikipedian dream of connecting all knowledge, however tenuously. Maybe it’s all a futile effort to fulfill the promise of the exhilarating subtitle—“In the Maelstrom of American Modernism?...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: William James, Unstuck In Time | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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