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Next fall, four committees—assembled at the behest of Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71—will examine every aspect of the undergraduate experience at Harvard...
...already nervous about doing research on the South African labor movement under the noses of the oppressive apartheid regime, turned the corner and watched through a fog of tear gas as police arrested and beat the workers inside. She, too, was almost apprehended before the officers relented at the behest of a lawyer for the labor movement. As she puts it, her nearly disastrous encounter with the South African authorities is “a great fieldwork story...
...week after the U.S. Surgeon General got his smallpox vaccination in front of news cameras in hopes of inspiring others - may founder. Republican Sen. Judd Gregg added the controversial language dealing with the preservative thimerosal -- which some parents believe can cause autism - to the smallpox vaccine bill at the behest of Majority Leader Bill Frist; it would kick all lawsuits involving thimerosal out of court and funnel claims through the preexisting, government-funded Vaccine Injury Compensation Fund (VICF). Parents protest, though, that the limit on noneconomic damages awarded from the fund is $250,000 ($350,000 if this bill passes...
...Takashi Sorimachi plays Junichi Mikami, a somber young man finishing a three-year prison sentence for a bar fight that resulted in manslaughter. Shortly before the end of his term, he is released on parole at the behest of prison official Shoji Nango (played by wizened screen icon Tsutomu Yamazaki). Nango wants Mikami's help in a private investigation commissioned by an enigmatic client. Their mission: to clear a convicted murderer slated to hang in three months. It is a chance for both men to unburden themselves of their guilt?Mikami for the bar killing, Nango for taking part...
This mix of emotions, depth and comedy was indeed apparent in a Pudding song O’Keefe wrote a decade ago at the behest of Mo Rocca ’91, then the Pudding’s president and currently a correspondent on “The Daily Show...