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...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol. She said that “she was struck by the kind of imagination that is demonstrated in the report,” and that the notion of taking the quality of teaching into account in tenure and pay decisions would “encourage people to be the best teachers they can.” Faust planned to meet with members of both the student and faculty advisory committees to the presidential search on Sunday night. —Staff writer Paras D. Bhayani can be reached...
This oversight is ironic, since the College proudly stakes its claims to internationalism and world prestige. Yet it fails to take into account this very basic need on the part of internationals, who comprise nearly 10 percent of the Harvard undergraduate population...
...become the hot seat of higher education, Faust will have to cope with the legacy of former University President Lawrence H. Summers, who sparked a faculty firestorm over the place of women in academia when he suggested in 2005 that “intrinsic aptitude” might account for the scarcity of women on elite science faculties...
...This was an early instalment in Rebekah Beddoe's calamitous encounter with psychiatry, which she recounts in Dying for a Cure (Random House; 346 pages). While the memoir focuses on how psychotropic drugs sent her mad during the early 2000s, Beddoe's account of her dealings with the eminent Melbourne psychiatrist she calls "Max Braydle" also shines an unflattering light on the talking component of the profession. "Terrible," says Jon Jureidini, head of psychological medicine at the Adelaide Women's and Children's Hospital, of the methods Beddoe ascribes to Braydle. "Sadly, people who read this book will think that...
...while “conservation may be a sign of personal virtue,” it is inadequate as the centerpiece of a comprehensive energy policy. Wilson eloquently frames the dilemma of modern environmentalism in moral terms, but he fails to provide any practical proposals that might rescue his account, fluent and heart-wrenching as it is, from the realm of implausible idealism. But short of viable policy proposals, Wilson has produced a broad-minded, argumentatively sound call that bridges the age-old divide between science and religion. And if such a union is the next step in the environmental...