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Following in the footsteps of the nearby Adams and Lowell, Eliot House is barring non-residents from its dining hall after 6 p.m. on Mondays through Thursdays. Eliot students will each be allowed one inter-House guest during those hours...
...Nixon was allowed to go from the airport to a guest bungalow, and to lunch with Premier Zhou Enlai. But then he was whisked to meet Mao, and the history books describe a meeting of civilizations that was as weird and awkward as it was historic. Mao and Zhou wanted to discuss the recent coup attempt by Lin Biao, Mao's chosen successor; Nixon didn't seem to understand them. He and Henry Kissinger flattered the Chairman. When Kissinger referred to Mao as a "professional philosopher," Mao laughed and asked, "He is a doctor of philosophy?" Nixon's reply...
...made no mention of last semester’s crisis—in public, at least, Summers has moved on—but it did not go unnoticed that the guest speaker at Opening Exercises, Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics Judith Palfrey, was a woman in science...
...later, the way I had with TiVo and instant messaging. But then, just recently, the future dawned -before I was prepared for it, as usual. The writer Andrew Sullivan, whose work I admired but who I barely knew, called to ask me if I could spare five days to ?guest blog? on his influential website, Andrew Sullivan.com. I confessed to him that I didn?t know how to blog. He asked me if I knew how to write an e-mail. I said that I did and he told me that in that case I also knew how to blog...
...Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters and the snobbish Wilcox clan into a modern academic feud that sweeps up the families of Howard Belsey, a white, English, radically-minded art-history professor at a prestigious New England liberal-arts college, and guest lecturer Monty Kipps, a black, traditionalist art historian who campaigns against affirmative action and other sacred cows of the liberal establishment. The story rambles on through renovations of several key Forster plot points: a broken engagement, a mix-up at a public concert, a Christmas shopping trip, and a stifled...