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...appealed successfully to Australians' basest instincts, adding: "People would struggle to agree on one theme he believes in." Many are convinced that ads predicting interest rates would rise under Labor were decisive. "When you knock on thousands of doors," says the winning candidate for Prospect, Chris Bowen, "you get a sense of things. People wanted to vote Labor because of health and education, but felt they couldn't risk...
Lewis and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 both point to two books on education, The Game of Life by William G. Bowen and James L. Shulman and Reclaiming the Game by Bowen and Sarah A. Levin ’00, to illustrate some of the more nuanced perspectives of varsity athletics on Ivy League campuses...
First, there was William Bowen’s and James Shulman’s book The Game of Life and the sequel, Reclaiming the Game, which Bowen co-wrote with Sarah Levin...
Lincoln is quick to point out that the Bowen who was the co-author of the Game of Life would disagree with that stance. The Bowen who was the co-author of an earlier work The Shape of the River, which dealt with minority admissions, would have praised Lincoln’s conclusion wholeheartedly. And Lincoln pounces on this apparent hypocrisy...
Lincoln wasn’t satisfied with ripping into the conclusions reached by Bowen and Shulman. He went further, questioning whether the impact that the Game of Life had on the Ivy presidents was based on the evidence presented in the work or whether it had something to do with Bowen’s position as the head of the Mellon Foundation—an organization that gives hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to Ivy institutions. Could Bowen’s influence over Ancient Eight schools have less to do with the content of his works and more...