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...office saw turnover after his departure. Is Summers paying attention to the search for his successor? “Not very closely,” he said. Summers—whose tenure is set to be the shortest of any Harvard president since the Civil War??said he is most proud of his efforts to revamp undergraduate education, boost science and interdisciplinary initiatives, and expand financial aid to more students. But he was reluctant to predict his legacy as Harvard’s 27th president. “I think it’s for others to judge...
...dominated by tales of music and love, sprinkled with religion, politics and literary references to Shakespeare, classic poetry, and the Bible. Ritter also dashes in instrumentation unexpected for his genre, and with an impressive act of arrangement, it works well. The record-opener “Girl in the War?? puts the mandolin to such use, while catchy “Wolves” follows up with guitar and piano, and “Monster Ballads” borrows a gospel feel with tasteful organ use. Ritter even allows the lyrics of “Idaho?...
...work.”Perhaps Knep unconsciously senses this distance in his work, as his next exhibition intends to explore a more human theme: “the territory of healing” in Memorial Hall’s remembrance of the Harvard students who died in the Civil War??given historical significance by the fact that the space doesn’t memorialize Harvard Confederates. The exhibition will be active from April 6 until April 23; Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Saturday 2 p.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday...
Caspar W. Weinberger ’38, a former Crimson president who served as secretary of defense to President Reagan and oversaw the nation’s massive peacetime defense buildup in the Cold War??s twilight years, died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney ailments. He was 88.Weinberger, who died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with his wife of 63 years, Jane, by his side, had served as chairman of Forbes Inc. until his death.A major force in California’s Republican Party during the 1960s, Weinberger held three major posts in Washington the following...
...Iran was, in fact, a bid for a war to liberate the Middle Eastern country. The organizers of the concert have denied all such accusations—co-emcee Jack P. McCambridge ’06 said explicitly on Saturday, “[this event] is not for war??—and we are inclined to take them at their word. As event organizer Nick B. Manske ’09 wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson, “If one adopts the position that any advocacy in human rights in Iran is advocacy...