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Search For Art Professor Narrows

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After a fruitless search for a senior faculty member, the Department of History of Art and Architecture is moving closer


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Moseley Braun Keeps Poise on ‘Hardball’

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Hours after hiring her third campaign manager and losing two aides, Carol Moseley Braun maintained her poise during a live


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Hornby Offers Peek at Novel-in-Progress

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Author Nick Hornby, whose books High Fidelity and About a Boy have recently met with silver screen success, read from


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Another Year, Another War

By Ben A. Black  • 

The grainy flicker of exploding bombs lit up television screens across the Harvard campus March 19. News stations broadcast dim


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English Department Fills Faculty Spots

By Ben A. Black  • 

With almost half of its 35 faculty members set to go on leave next year, the Department of English has


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Gates To Spend Year In Princeton

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Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr. will be spending next year at the Institute


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15 English Professors To Go On Sabbatical

By Ben A. Black  • 

Nearly half of the faculty in the English department will go on leave at some point next year, including some


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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


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Writing Classes Turn Students Away

By Ben A. Black  • 

An impressive creative writing portfolio helped Margaret D. Maloney ’06 get into Harvard, and she intended to take advantage of


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English Dept. Hires Scholars Of 20th Century

By Ben A. Black  • 

Poaching from Yale, Slate magazine and the department just down the hall, the Department of English has hired three young

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