Word: academia
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...brother John is director of national intelligence and delivers daily briefings to the President. But Nicholas Negroponte, 62, is trying to reach a far more challenging audience: the world's poorest children. The co-founder of M.I.T.'s Media Lab and former Wired columnist took a leave from academia last year to build a computer - a laptop so cheap that developing countries could buy them by the millions to help their kids leapfrog into the 21st century. It's an ambitious project, but the charismatic Negroponte has a persuasive pitch and a knack for fund raising. With the support...
After President Kennedy’s tragic assassination, his family dreamed of establishing a living memorial to his memory at Harvard. It would be a place where the worlds of politics and academia would meet, a place for undergraduates to pursue public service and thereby recapitulate President Kennedy’s transformative experience many times over...
Indeed, Verba said that he is sometimes known as the “Ado Annie of academia,” referring to a character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma, who sings, “I’m just a girl who can?...
...rejected by most mainstream publishers, and Wright was almost resigned to seeing it languish "archived in the Carpentaria Land Council office forever." Another laugh. "It was a brave publisher who took it up." Others might say clever. Established in 1995 as a bridge between commercial houses and academia, Giramondo's output has been small but sagacious. Peter Castro's novel The Garden Book and John Hughes' memoir The Idea of Home are but two literary hybrids that have monopolized Australia's recent prize lists. Says publisher and editor Ivor Indyk: "We're always looking for the exotic and the interesting...
...speech she announced that seven tenured professors and two assistant professors have joined the faculty this year, and four clinical lecturers were promoted to the new position of clinical professor. The Law School’s faculty expansion has sent ripples through the world of elite legal academia because of Kagan’s reliance on “poaching,” or hiring full-time professors from other institutions. Former Dean Robert C. Clark, whom Kagan succeeded in 2003, shied away from the practice during the latter part of his 14 years of service. Kagan spoke yesterday...