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Dartmouth College will soon begin a search for its new President after James E. Wright announced Monday that he will step down as President of the College in June 2009. Wright, 68, has served as the college’s 16th president since August 1998, and has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty for nearly forty years, according to a university press release. Like University President Drew G. Faust, Wright is a preeminent scholar of American history. Wright began discussing his departure with Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees Chair, Charles E. Haldeman, in late fall...
...Passions Within Reason,” by Robert H. Frank “The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are, The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology” and “Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny,” by Robert Wright...
...Sackler lecture hall is no stranger to overcrowding. Berkey said that she had been asked to leave when shopping a class about Frank Lloyd Wright in the Sackler several semesters...
That's one reason gays and lesbians end relationships sooner than heterosexuals. In a 2004 paper, psychology professor Lawrence Kurdek of Wright State University in Ohio reported that over a 12-year period, 21% of gay and lesbian couples broke up; only 14% of married straight couples did. Too many gay relationships are pulled by the crosscurrents of childhood pain, adult expectation and gay-community pathologies like meth addiction. Kurdek has also found that members of gay and lesbian couples are significantly more self-conscious than straight married people, "perhaps due to their stigmatized status," he writes...
...story itself has more romantic resonance than some of the more self-important Disney tales. Hans Christian Andersen gets a lot of the credit for that, but book writer Doug Wright (Grey Gardens, I Am My Own Wife) at least managed not to screw it up. Composer Alan Menken (with Glenn Slater replacing the late Howard Ashman as lyricist) has added several catchy new songs to his already fine score; the Broadway-razzmatazz number in which the Ursula, the sea witch (a sharp Sherie Renee Scott), celebrates her evil ways, "I Want the Good Times Back," would have made...