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According to a recent study, women spend 90 more minutes each week than men doing things they do not enjoy. I spent those minutes at the installation ceremony for University President Drew Gilpin Faust. I was wedged between an old crone who kicked things off by substituting “sisterhood” for “brotherhood” in “America the Beautiful” and a small dog who looked even less happy to be there than I was. Eventually his owners took him away, clearly realizing that it would be considered cruelty to animals...
...idle minutes spent filling out an online form last spring landed Trotta a spot as a contestant on an episode of Wheel of Fortune’s College Road Trip series last night...
...that he remembered Gore as an avid baseball fan. “I remember going down to the Dunster House Grille late at night,” Hyland said. “He’d be there watching the ballgame. I had a sense that he spent the ’60s watching the ball game.” Gore launched his political career in 1976 when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee. He was elected vice president in 1992 and again in 1996. His lost his bid for the presidency...
...Faust’s priorities echoed those outlined by former president Lawrence H. Summers in his 2001 installation speech. Faust, like Summers, stressed the importance of internationalization, strengthening the sciences, and expanding financial aid to students.But Faust’s speech was also distinctly her own, reflecting her years spent in academia as a historian of the Civil War. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and speechwriting specialist, noted the “subtlety” with which Faust distinguished herself from the tenure of Summers, who had been criticized for favoring...
...Academy in western Massachusetts. He was Abdullah ibn Hussein, direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and scion of the Hashemite dynasty, the onetime princes of Mecca and currently the ruling family of the kingdom of Jordan. Now known as His Majesty King Abdullah II, he points to the years spent as a member of the academy's class of 1980 as the most formative of his life. Deerfield introduced Abdullah to a much broader range of friends than is normally available to young Arab princes, and the character-building crucible of dormitory life taught him Yankee egalitarianism, self-reliance...