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...collections, from Widener Library to the University Art Museums to the Arnold Arboretum. What they’re not told is how Harvard administrators regularly jeopardize the accessibility of those resources with budget cuts, peculiar staff restructuring and other decisions of questionable sanity. When Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby quietly announced last month that the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) would move—minus its well-respected curator of five years—away from the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) department and into the Harvard College Library (HCL), film enthusiasts and cinematographically-inclined undergraduates...
...professor has resigned from his position as a member of Harvard’s informal committee on film studies to protest the transfer of power and what he characterized as Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s unilateral decision...
...conceit underlying The Cooler is that casinos employ certain individuals who are so hangdog depressed that they cause any winning gamblers around them to begin losing. Bernie Lootz (William H. Macy) is particularly good at the job, so good in fact, that he need only brush up against someone to cut short a winning streak. But as luck would have it, days before he is about to retire, he meets Natalie (Maria Bello), a waitress drawn in by his pitiable existence. The encounter quickly progresses and soon Natalie is firmly clutching a nude Bernie’s genitalia...
...Pinker declined a full professorship at Harvard because he did not think the ideas floating around here were inspiring enough. At that time, Pinker says, the Psychology Department was dominated by mathematical psychology. This year, an enticing offer—including a spacious office on the ninth floor of William James Hall—made him reconsider. “For a long time, Harvard had a pretty geriatric faculty. Not just in sheer age, but in the set of topics and the whole approach to the field.” Although he has only been a professor here...
Yesterday’s action from law students at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), the College of William and Mary and Washburn University is the latest in a series of friend-of-the-court briefs in the high-profile case...