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Aside from a more confident approach to the jobmarket, Atherton and Leape say that the increasein graduates seeking public service employment isan outgrowth of undergraduates' renewed interestin public service...
...Atherton agrees that a good bit of the motivation guiding applicants to apply for public service jobs in international development is the media attention. But he adds, "I think people do by and large have strong social consciences. I hope we will be able to get more people. It's hard to say if this is short term; we'll have to wait...
...interview conducted last week when Tuchman was in Cambridge to deliver the Atherton lecture, the historian suggested a second reason for her runaway success--an explanation which reveals another dimension to Tuchman's histories, as well as the evolution her work has undergone. That explanation is her use of history as a "distant mirror"--a historic parallel of 20-th century problems...
Folly and Government, Tuchman's forthcoming book which she described at the Atherton Lecture, appears to carry this evolution to its logical extreme. Where Tuchman once proclaimed that "I am a disciple of the once because I mistrust history in gallon jugs," her new book will span 4000 years of legend and fact. Where Tuchman once wrote that "insistence on purpose turns the historian into a prophet" her new book is defined by purpose, its conclusions implicitly prophetic. And the 12 case studies, Tuchman uses to explore her question were explicitly chosen because of their conformance to strict criteria. Stated...
David C. Jung Atherton, Calif...