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...Rebecca Hamilton, co-founder of the Harvard Darfur Action Group and a third-year student at Harvard Law School. Hamilton opened the discussion by asking the panelists to explore the effects of the lesser-known conflict in South Sudan on the current crisis in Darfur. Rev. Gloria White Hammond, a pediatrician in Boston who has visited the region eight times, said that the active involvement of Christian conservatives in humanitarian efforts in South Sudan was “helpful in having a ready-made constituency for advocacy” when the situation in Darfur worsened. Congressman Michael E. Capuano...
...Hammond said that her work is not done. Next year, her office will conduct a survey of the entire Harvard faculty, collecting data that will allow a thorough examination of the relationship between gender or ethnicity and differences in factors such as salaries and chair appointments...
...leave Harvard and refused to accept his fate passively after his diagnosis.“Avi instead made the extremely difficult and courageous choice of fighting back.” said Nathan M. Boaz, a close friend and classmate of Kremer.Along with 90 of his classmates and Janice H. Hammond, the Philips professor and senior associate dean, Kremer led a candy fundraiser for Valentine’s Day and hosted an online auction for ALS research last spring.Kremer and Boaz aimed to raise $100,000 from these endeavors—an unprecedented amount for section fundraisers. They exceeded even their...
...scored his first professional gig in the Village (a supporting act to blues singer John Lee Hooker). Rejected by the traditional labels, Folkways and Vanguard (whose A&R man said, "We don't record freaks"), he made an odder move: being signed by legendary producer John Hammond for Mitch Miller's Columbia Records. Miller called Dylan "Hammond's folly...
...also had the privilege to know Carolyn Hester, the beautiful "Texas songbird" of folk, who had secured Dylan's first professional recording gig as a backup harmonica player on her first Columbia Records album. (Hammond, Carolyn's producer, heard Dylan and promptly signed him to Columbia.) Carolyn, who was inexplicably omitted from the final cut of No Direction Home (though she had been interviewed for the film), had recorded with Buddy Holly back in Texas, and, according to The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Holly "followed her to Greenwich Village" in 1958. He wasn't the only one infatuated with Carolyn. Robert...