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...almost all of our information through our peers. I believe in evolution not because I've read Darwin but because everyone I know thinks it's true. When presented with doubts, I don't search for detailed information from my side. I go with the consensus of mainstream media, academia and the government. Not because they're always right but because they're right far more often than not, and I have a TiVo to watch. Also, unlike antivaccination people, they usually shut up after a little while...
...from or where the mistake came from.” Some Harvard Law students expressed doubt about using clerkship percentages to determine rankings. Nicholas A. Price, a first-year law student, said that “Yale and Stanford are known for attracting people who want to go into academia,” so it would make sense that their students would have a higher interest in clerkships. Rachel M. Sanchez, also a first-year, stated that Yale and Stanford are “more geared towards having their students become judges,” while Harvard is better known...
...expert is currently teaching “Geopolitics of Energy” and “Decision Making in Recent Crises: The Formulation and Consequences of Key Decisions on Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.” A graduate of Georgetown and Oxford, O’Sullivan previously worked in academia as an adjunct professor at Georgetown while serving as a fellow at the Brookings Institute from 1998-2001. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...commissioning an independent police review panel in the aftermath of the controversial arrest of black Harvard professor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., committee members have yet to be finalized and announced. The panel will likely include 10 to 14 non-paid professional experts in academia, law enforcement, and conflict resolution, whose names are expected to be announced within the next couple weeks, according to Chuck Wexler, executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Police Executive Research Forum and chair of the panel. He said that finalizing appointments has been a “challenge?...
...After finishing his education, he briefly worked in accounting before returning to HBS as an assistant professor. But he took leave to help direct the Allied air war in WWII, and then left academia afterwards to work at Ford Motor Company—where he later became President—because his Harvard salary was not enough to pay the medical bills when both he and his wife came down with cases of polio...