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...Green bounced back from a 24-7 deficit to topple Brown, as sophomore halfback Sean Maher scored on a nine-yd. pitchout with 1:44 to go and the field in near darkness. Dartmouth must pray for a Harvard win and cap of its 100th anniversary season with a triumph...
...There's a popular version of Psychology and many students enter the field with preconceived ideas, and they're often the wrong ideas," Brendan A. Maher, professor and former chairman of the Psychology Department, says. "It's a combination of scholarly and scientific skills in understanding and working with the problems of human behavior." The rationale behind the empirical bias, Maher explains, is that Harvard's Psych Department stresses the areas in which it's strongest. "We've got considerable strength in the research areas," he says, "but Psychology is a very large field, and to be strong in everything...
...Charles M. Judd, assistant professor and head tutor, says that the department offers students a number of course options in clinical studies such as abnormal psychology, adding that both Maher and George W. Goethals '43, another professor, teach courses in psych-pathology each semester. "There's always the possibility of taking some pretty good courses in clinical Psychology," Judd says...
...Both Maher and Danley contend that psychology is a broad enough discipline to offer plenty of flexibility to concentrators. Independent research projects and honors theses provide students with an opportunity to work closely with a senior faculty member, Maher says. Aldo A. Badini '80, for example, has spent three years working on projects with Robert Rosenthal, professor of social psychology...
...Maher Irsheid, 38, one of the largest Arab landowners on the West Bank, manages his family's vast 75,000-acre tract of fertile farm land near Jenin. But these days he travels from his office in Amman to the West Bank only once a year to avoid the "humiliating experience" of being stripped at the Allenby Bridge checkpoint. Staunchly pro-American, Irsheid was a member of the Jordanian Parliament when the West Bank was under Amman's rule; he is disenchanted with what he calls a "two-faced American policy that talks of human rights while providing...