Congratulations Professor Wisse on the Humanities Medal. Well deserved!

I can imagine your Dean is turning green with envy. She does not manage envy too well. Must be all those rejected Guggenheim applications.
 

I doubt that any envy felt by our Dean (of Humanities) gnaws as much as whatever worm eats at you, 9:00.

Yes, congratulations to Prof. Wisse, and to Professor Pipes! And also to my fellow classicist Prof. Victor Davis Hanson, whose "absolute, unflinching belief in the cause [of the Iraq War] and its ultimate success made him a favorite of Cheney, who urges Hanson's books on his staff and on reporters traveling with him for foreign trips." http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/2234

And hip hip hooray while we're at it for Prof. Mansfield who won it last year (or the year before)! THREE Humanities Medals went to Harvard in the last year or two, as many as the Rhodes' we got this year!

Who says Harvard's slipping?
 

I didn't notice until today, but it appears that the Columbia hunger strikers had some success. Their blog was updated with what they're saying they won: http://cu-strike.blogspot.com/

A little unclear what it all amounts to, but it's not nothing, which is what i would've predicted that they get.
 

Are you implying that Mansfield, Wisse, and (before that) Vendler did not deserve these awards?
 

Of course not!
 

I don't know... I'd be wary of accepting any medal from Bush after those three horsemen Tenet, Franks and Bremer.