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Austin Hall’s Ames moot courtroom was converted into a television set as pre-eminent criminal defense lawyers Johnnie Cochran and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz spent an afternoon and evening addressing a jury of 12, an in-person crowd of around 200 and a nationwide...
Houellebecq is that eminent specimen of literary animal, the deadpan desperado. (Think William Burroughs, but more readable.) The narrator of Platform, also named Michel, works for the French Ministry of Culture. A nobody-in-particular who has made his peace with that, Michel has a gift for loathing so nasty...
Officials from the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) also threatened to take the land from Harvard by eminent domain if the yard—long eyed as a site for commuter-rail storage—was not given adequate protections by the University.
“I think [Radcliffe’s] now one of the more pre-eminent places to spend a year,” Elkins said. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have been selected.”
Damrosch cited medievalist James Simpson, a senior faculty member at Cambridge University until his recruitment by Harvard’s English department this spring, as another such eminent hire. But while Simpson is highly respected within his field, students and the wider public outside his specialized academic domain are unlikely...