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...will be a common expectation.” “I hope all of you will decide to be active in politics and public service,” Khazei said. “I believe your generation will help to put America back on track, with a new agenda, a new role for government.” A resident fellow at the IOP last fall, Khazei was named one of America’s 50 outstanding leaders under 40 by Time Magazine in 1994, and last year, U.S. News and World Report called Khazei...
...respected across the University. Hyman will also give Faust a trusted top adviser in the key area of science. It is no secret that the Presidential Search Committee sought out scientists and that expansion in the sciences is at the top of the Corporation’s agenda. Although Faust is known to be particularly science-savvy for a historian, Hyman’s presence in Mass. Hall will be a great boon to Faust’s early tenure. Hyman’s expertise on efforts to expand interdisciplinary science initiatives will also be valuable for Faust. From...
Obama, in contrast, is so set on inoffensiveness that it’s getting hard to see any substance behind the veil of smiles and cuddles. His agenda includes eliminating poverty, creating energy independence, and building consensus between parties. Lucifer himself couldn’t take issue with this platform. All that’s left for Obama to do to cover all his populist bases is to absorb Justin Timberlake’s progressive platform of “bringing sexy back...
...Ph.D., some scientists have questioned whether universities should award students who hold similar beliefs advanced science degrees. What does it say about an institution, they ask, if someone holding a Ph.D. under its seal gives speeches promoting creationism, using the authority of their legitimately earned degree to promote an agenda fundamentally at odds with current scientific knowledge? Others argue that enforcing some sort of “belief standard” among science doctoral students would be contrary to the bedrock values of intellectual tolerance on which the academy is founded. At Harvard, the consensus seems...
...ambiguity - and all his cross-aisle flirtation - has proved more than enough to position Lieberman as the Senate's one-man tipping point. If he were to jump ship, the ensuing shift of power to Republicans would scramble the politics of the war in Iraq, undercut the Democrats' national agenda and potentially weaken their hopes for the White House in 2008. Those stakes are high enough to give Lieberman leverage with both parties no matter how slim the chance of his crossing the aisle. Which means Senate leaders aren't worrying only about whether Joe Lieberman will switch parties. They...