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...lack of overall coordination. “What we don’t have is a comprehensive program. But we now have a plan for that,” said Rosenblum, who is also the Clark professor of ethics in politics and government. Stephen Marks, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud professor of health and human rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member the committee, presented the committee’s forthcoming plan to enhance human rights-related course offerings. While undergraduates currently have the option of taking human rights courses in different departments and of applying...
...what astronomers call the habitable zone: the spot at which temperatures remain comfortable and water can remain liquid. All this has led to a fair amount of astronomical hyperventilating. "On the treasure map of the universe, one would be tempted to mark this planet with an X," said Xavier Delfosse, an astronomer with Grenoble University in France and one of the planet's co-discoverers. Dmitri Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, went further, enthusing to The New York Times, "It's 20 light-years [away]. We can go there." (Sasselov did not make it clear just...
...Communications Charles V. Sullivan. Charles Sullivan would not name the other committee members.The administration hopes to have a coaching candidate chosen by the end of next week, with an official announcement released the following week, Sullivan said.According to a report in the Boston Globe yesterday, the committee interviewed former Xavier University coach Bob Stack on Tuesday and is set to speak today with Tommy Amaker, recently fired from his coaching position at the University of Michigan. Sullivan did not confirm the Globe’s report. Jarvis currently works as a college basketball commentator for both ESPN and Yahoo! Sports...
...bottom of the net. I’ve even resorted to listening to online radio broadcasts inside WiFi cafés in Buenos Aires, frightening other (normal) patrons with random fist-pumps or involuntary gasps at plays like Ron Lewis’ three-pointer to send Ohio St. and Xavier into overtime.Throughout this year’s NCAA Tournament, I’ve felt entirely cut off from sports’ most original and passionate event – a three-week odyssey into the quintessential euphoria and tragedy of athletics. Its closest rival in intensity, ecstasy and heartbreak...
...loved the idea that they were people working in today's vocabulary. I wanted to collect things of my time--which was a necessity anyway because everything else was astronomically expensive," Krakoff says. More recently he has been buying pieces by Newson, Arad and Claude and Franois-Xavier Lalanne--for whom he organized a show and published a book last year...