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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...done by senior faculty members, who have already been granted tenure and thus have less pressure to achieve as researchers. Such an idea has been advocated by no less eminent a figure than acting Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky. But given Harvard's propensity to kowtow to every whim of its most senior professors, such a move seems unlikely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Matter of Honor | 5/22/1991 | See Source »

...Alessandro Giuliani, during World War I a soldier who fought the Austrians and, in 1964, the novel's present time, a professor of aesthetics. Alessandro meets Nicolo, a 17-year-old illiterate factory apprentice, when they both miss a weekend bus from Rome to the hill towns. On a whim, they decide to walk the 70 km or so to their destinations. On the way, Alessandro tells his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rousing Tale for a Long March | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...gallop across half of Rome. He joins the navy and finds himself shooting at a much larger Austrian force across the barrier of a river that is, alas, drying up. Friends die. He is swept up in a mutinous retreat, caught, imprisoned, condemned, then released on the whim of a mad dwarf in the war ministry, whose function is to make sure that military orders are garbled and meaningless. Then he is thrown back into the line, wounded, and swept up again, this time in a love affair with a nurse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rousing Tale for a Long March | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...Although it's frustrating for people who think they've already reached the right conclusions, it means Harvard is not subject to governance by whim," says Thomas O'Brien, who was a vice president when Bok took his post...

Author: By Tara A. Nayak, | Title: After Two Decades at Harvard, Bok Gets a Well-Earned Rest | 4/1/1991 | See Source »

Kerrigan says she applied to Harvard on a whim, and later chose to come here--against the advice of some professors who suggested that Harvard would be too liberal for her--because of the prospect of going to a place that once would have excluded her based on her gender and ethnicity...

Author: By Ira E. Stoll, | Title: ... Who Is Bridget Kerrigan? | 3/19/1991 | See Source »

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