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...experience. University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure will bring many changes, but the place of undergraduates in the University will be unaltered. As Derek C. Bok resumes his role in Mass. Hall, this undergraduate-prioritizing leader (who championed the cause of undergraduate pedagogy in the 1970s and 1980s) will replace another (who called Harvard College “the very heart of the university” in his 2001 inaugural address).And if undergraduate issues are indeed a priority to Harvard, then we, Harvard’s undergraduates, must put the rare opportunity presented by the Harvard College...
...THEODORE DRAPER, 93, irascible historian known for his masterful plumbing of official documents, and talent at translating them into lively, accessible works that explored the abuse of power in U.S. politics; in Princeton, New Jersey. Among his best-known books: A Very Thin Line, a definitive study of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal...
...broad theme in your work seems to be a mild form of optimistic technological determinism, in contrast to the typical 1980s cyberpunk dystopian future. Your model of the Bitchun Society in “Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom” in particular seems to be, if not quite a utopia, at least a world in which boredom is one of the biggest problems for most people. Do you think today that our technology is gradually narrowing the possible outcomes into a miasma of mediocrity...
...toward those goals. The strongest lever available to these leaders is their personal embodiment of that narrative—as the saying goes, “They walk the talk.”A good concrete example is James O. Freedman ’57, who in the late 1980s was appointed to the presidency of Dartmouth College. His principal missions were to upgrade the intellectual quality of students and the level of discourse at the school, and he achieved this goal by devising a number of programs that rewarded high-quality scholarship. More importantly, in his speeches and analyses...
...1980s and '90s, an unassuming Thai boutique called Greyhound did respectable business in Bangkok's Siam Center shopping mall, selling reasonably priced clothes that melded international urban chic with local tastes. For its co-owner and designer, an advertising executive named Bhanu Inkawat, the shop was little more than a weekend hobby. But in 2003, with Thailand starting to become more fashion conscious, Bhanu saw an opportunity: he quit his day job and poured his energy into Greyhound. Today, Bhanu, 50, presides over a growing style empire with 12 designers, 14 clothing stores and seven caf?s in Bangkok, franchises...