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...Commencement approaches, Harvard likes to think it has helped to produce another class of leaders. But are leaders born or made? Is nature or nurture more important? I address these questions in my recent book, The Powers to Lead...
...understanding between the two countries, according to the delegation’s interpreter, Edward W. Keane ’57.Fifty years later, tension between the former USSR and the U.S. has largely subsided, and Harvard’s Davis Center for Eurasian Studies and the College’s Born in the USSR club actively encourage students to pursue Russian studies or seek out exposure to Russian culture. The Davis Center not only provides financial support to student internships and research in Russia and the CIS countries, but also hosts a variety of conferences and seminars.In addition, Harvard?...
...worked as Princeton’s provost from 1995 to 2001—has since shown that he is a self-teacher who friends say is both curious and adventurous in his academic and personal lives. The son of a teacher and a businessman, Ostriker was born and raised in Manhattan. He attended the Fieldston School, but said that in both high school and college he learned more from reading on his own than he did from most of his courses.“I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes...
...fresh talent. “I would hear anecdotally that many more people would come in when a review was published,” she said. “I felt that my job was to get people to go in for themselves.” Vaizey, who was born January 16, 1938 in New York, attended the Brearley School in New York then the Putney School. A 1959 Radcliffe College graduate, Vaizey, who pointed to numerous classes that she enjoyed, called Harvard sometimes “overwelming.” “I slightly regretted not going...
...photograph of Jong Un to circulate outside the North, a snapshot the chef took when the boy was about 11. He is the son of Kim Jong Il's third wife - reportedly his favorite - Ko Young Hee, a former dancer who died in 2004 from breast cancer. Ko was born in Japan but moved back to North Korea with her father in the 1960s...