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...dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Allan M. Brandt, received further accolades for his new book on Monday when he was named a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction...
...Harvard does a good job to support us,” Brown said, adding that the most important factor for graduate school completion is the individual’s perseverance. “It’s all about self-motivation.” GSAS Dean Allan M. Brandt was not available for comment...
...Allan M. Brandt, the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize for his comprehensive study of the tobacco industry. Brandt won the prestigious history prize, awarded annually by the trustees of Columbia University, for his book, “The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.” “The premise of the book was that cigarettes represented so many central aspects of our culture,” Brandt, who was traveling and could...
Taking the history of the public’s reaction to no-smoking policies into account, Brandt said that he does not foresee much difficulty in enforcing the new regulations...
...think this reflects social norms about smoking as well as the fact that people’s understanding of its harms have really shifted,” Brandt said. “There’s sort of a self-enforcement. Generally, the public has been very respectful and compliant...