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...Susan R. Suleiman, chair of the literature and comparative literature department, said that the retirement of the literature concentration’s administrator, Barbara J. Akiba, will make up a “decent chunk” of the 15 percent budget cut that the FAS administration has requested of all departments...
...Humanities Diana Sorensen sponsors and provides the free coffee at the Barker Center. “The cost became astronomical,” Dean Sorensen explained in an e-mail. “I know more faculty who miss the afternoon coffee,” says Barbara J. Akiba, department administrator in the Literature concentration. “Cutting back is always hard.” Students miss it too. Sam E. Prevatt, a second-year graduate student, is disappointed by the cutbacks. He describes the afternoon coffee hours as a social experience. “After section, we would...
...return-slowly, fitfully but, eventually, resoundingly. Hiroshima today is a pleasant, prosperous city of 1.1 million people, with everyday concerns that are mostly no different from those of any other city in the developed world. One day in mid-July, Hiroshima's mayor, the M.I.T.-educated, English-speaking Tadatoshi Akiba, confesses that he is consumed at the moment with efforts to build a new baseball stadium for the city's baseball team, the Hiroshima Toyo Carp. But the Bomb is the backdrop for everything that has been built here in the past six decades, from stadiums to automobile factories...
...Japanese architect Kenzo Tange and completed in 1954. The park's emotional centerpiece became the Peace Museum, dedicated to recalling the horror of nuclear war. Over the next two years, the occupation government gave Hiroshima the extra aid, which helped the city begin to recover--both psychologically and economically. Akiba, the current mayor, says this was one of the critical turning points in Hiroshima's recovery. The assistance created jobs and provided the city with an emotional core, something meaningful to build on ground zero...
Students packed Wiener Auditorium to capacity yesterday for the event, which was organized by KSG students Wayne H. Ho and Akiba E. Smith-Francis...