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Search For Art Professor Narrows
After a fruitless search for a senior faculty member, the Department of History of Art and Architecture is moving closer
Moseley Braun Keeps Poise on ‘Hardball’
Hours after hiring her third campaign manager and losing two aides, Carol Moseley Braun maintained her poise during a live
Hornby Offers Peek at Novel-in-Progress
Author Nick Hornby, whose books High Fidelity and About a Boy have recently met with silver screen success, read from
Another Year, Another War
The grainy flicker of exploding bombs lit up television screens across the Harvard campus March 19. News stations broadcast dim
English Department Fills Faculty Spots
With almost half of its 35 faculty members set to go on leave next year, the Department of English has
Gates To Spend Year In Princeton
Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. will be spending next year at the Institute
15 English Professors To Go On Sabbatical
Nearly half of the faculty in the English department will go on leave at some point next year, including some
Harvard To Hire MIT Psych Professor
In a major coup for the psychology department, psychologist Steven Pinker has decided to leave MIT for an appointment at
Writing Classes Turn Students Away
An impressive creative writing portfolio helped Margaret D. Maloney ’06 get into Harvard, and she intended to take advantage of
English Dept. Hires Scholars Of 20th Century
Poaching from Yale, Slate magazine and the department just down the hall, the Department of English has hired three young
Museum Becomes Modern
Hidden away in the Harvard Museum of Natural History—past a case full of George Washington’s stuffed pheasants and a sperm
IOP Group Takes Inside Look at U.N.
UNITED NATIONS—In the United Nations delegates’ dining room high above the East River yesterday, 35 members of an Institute of
Odd Couple Push For Financial Aid, Group Funds
In 1998, Noah Z. Seton ’00 and Kamil E. Redmond ’00 launched a campaign for the Undergraduate Council presidency and
Four Students Win Rhodes
For the second year in a row, Harvard captured more Rhodes Scholarships than any other college, with four students among
Study Shows Dogs Learned To Read Man
Dogs evolved their remarkable ability to understand human gestures gradually as they were domesticated, rather than inheriting the skill from
