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...meeting was consumed by professors’ attacks on Summers’ leadership. Another Faculty meeting, scheduled for this past Tuesday, was cancelled the day after Summers’ Feb. 21 resignation to give professors “time to settle,” according to Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan. Kirby, who is in the final months of his tenure as dean, ended yesterday’s letter with a hopeful look to the future. “The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the University are longer-lived than...
...Still, the German pontiff is not shying away from the challenge. While he is trying to reach out a hand to moderate Muslims, he is also using increasingly tough language in condemning faith-based terror. On Monday, after attacks on churches and mosques in Iraq and Nigeria, Benedict told a crowd in St. Peter's Square: "God, the creator and father of all, will call to account even more severely those who spill the blood of their brother in His name." Like his predecessor, the preacher's message is clear. Only this time, one wonders if it will ever reach...
...more support for international study, and expansion to Allston—and keep it moving in a way that won’t have to be revisited by his permanent replacement. (On Allston, placing the new Harvard Stem Cell Insitute on Western Ave. and tapping an avant-garde German architect to design it seems like an excellent start. Both faculty and students will be a lot more excited about moving to the other side of the Charles if it looks visually stunning and becomes a hub of cutting-edge research.) At the same time, I personally hope that things don?...
...Paradise Now” will win the statuette for Best Foreign Film; I think that its sympathetic portrayal of terrorism is more than the Academy can stomach. My prediction is that “Sophie Scholl” will win in this category. It is about a young German girl’s heroism during the Holocaust, and the Academy has a history of rewarding films of this genre...
...week before a Faculty meeting in which he would have faced the second no-confidence motion of his career. In the first vote, held last March, the Faculty of Arts and Science voted a lack of confidence in Summers by a margin of 218-185. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan, who had proposed the second no-confidence motion, cautioned against overextending the national influence of Summers’ resignation. “There is no reason to start imagining a rash of copy-cat motions,” she wrote in an e-mail yesterday...