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...first episode opens with an eerie reading, set to music, of a William S. Burroughs prose fragment about the Egyptian belief that we have seven souls: "Number six is Khaibit, the Shadow, Memory, your whole past conditioning from this and other lives." The shadows and memories of the dead hover close over the show, as the rubout fallout from the whackings of Adriana (Drea de Matteo) and Tony B. (Steve Buscemi) continues, not to mention Tony's continuing baggage inherited from his late mother Livia. There's a general sense, in this last season, of a deathbed taking-stock, even...
...into Harvard?Cheek was heartbroken. Alumni were disappointed. And as the 2006 Winter Games in Turin came to a close with the speedskater bearing the United States flag, even NBC announcer Bob Costas tossed in his two cents, staring into the camera and calling for Harvard Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 to review Cheek’s application.Moreover, rumor has it that following his rejection, Cheek is now being courted by “big-name” universities such as Princeton, Georgetown, and that other institution down in New Haven?...
Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby released a brief letter to professors yesterday in which he spoke of the “difficult circumstances” over the past five weeks that have seen both his and University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignations, while praising the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) for having “continued its work with unflagging energy and goodwill.” The message, which is less than 400 words in total, comes as the Faculty awaits Kirby’s annual Letter to the Faculty. In past years, Kirby?...
...Collegiate High School in New York City, Bruce J. Breimer, doesn’t expect any radical change.“I’d be shocked if this was a factor in some sort of plummeting yield,” he said.Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said that the campus controversies of the late 1960s were only “one factor” contributing to the decline in applications at that time.And last year, when Summers sparked a national uproar with his remarks on women in science, the College experienced...
...tenure—the shortest since the Civil War—might be unusual, the onslaught of criticism at its close is by no means unique. Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand recalls controversy surrounding presidential searches dating back to 1909. President Charles William Eliot, Class of 1853, transformed Harvard into a research university. Forty years later, a lack of structure in the curriculum led to his ouster. His successor—A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877—created the concept of the concentration. Lowell, in turn, came under fire for his racism...