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...months ago, Harvard’s bid to restore stability to HMC suffered a setback when Meyer’s predecessor Mohamed A. El-Erian announced plans to return to lead a private investment company after a brief 22-month tenure...
...death. Some might say King is frozen in time, forever urgent and perspiring, but no--he's beyond time. On the night before his death, he said, "Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place." That place is nothing, though, compared with the brief, fierce blaze of the genuine hero...
...Perhaps it would be all well and good if science fiction simply gave us dream-like promises of new inventions and a brief introduction to exaggerated scientific theories. But science fiction paints a portrait of human society that is starker and truer than any other genre of fiction. This, of course, is undoubtedly an unpopular idea among more literary types. After all, isn’t the wonderful world of science fiction the territory of pimply, socially awkward teenagers? This would be true if our world was still a world where life was a simple morality play that was played...
...parliamentary elections were something of a warm-up for the presidential election. Another potential presidential candidate, Ali Larijani, Iran's former negotiator on its nuclear program, won a landslide victory in the city of Qom. A pragmatic conservative, he resigned from the nuclear brief last year after clashing with Ahmadinejad. Larijani had reportedly agreed to a temporary freeze of Iran's uranium-enrichment program as a good-faith gesture in talks with the West. Ahmadinejad publicly rejected the move, and the U.N. Security Council imposed three rounds of sanctions on Iran...
...It’s so far out of the realm of possibilities that I would ever stop working on my thesis,” she said. “I don’t even know what that would be like.” She took a brief break from final editing last night to offer advice to younger students interested in writing. “I went to Dubai, which is what made it all worth it,” she said. “If you’re going to write a thesis, at least...