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...importance through multidisciplinary analysis. The Academy’s seal depicts Minerva, Roman goddess of victory in war and wisdom, a rising sun, and the motto “Sub Libertate Florent.” Established during the Revolutionary War, the Academy was founded to represent some of the brightest minds and hopes of a new country, as well as the belief that the arts and sciences flourish under freedom. Other 2005 fellows from Harvard are David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography; John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; James Engell...

Author: By Joyce Y. Zhang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: AAAS Inducts 225th Class of Fellows | 10/11/2005 | See Source »

Like an indecisive interior decorator, Germany has been mulling gaudy color schemes for its new coalition. Yet even if this week sees a final choice - pairing Christian Democrat black with Social Democratic red - the government will appear oddly colorless. Missing from any Cabinet will be the country's brightest politician, Joschka Fischer, 57, Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor since 1998. The street-fighting iconoclast who settled happily into a role at the peak of the German establishment, and whose international fame and personal popularity always seemed out of kilter with the modest size of his Green party, has retired from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goodbye To All That | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

...things on which they agree. Kiki’s blood-and-flesh good sense overwhelms her husband’s tendencies toward the theoretical flourishes that plague academia’s brightest minds—in the fictional Wellington, of course...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beautiful Zadie’s Novel Disappointingly Dense | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...those post-war days, academia faced a real intellectual crisis, and it culminated in a no-holds-barred interrogation of why education matters to us, of how it was leading (sometimes astray) our best and brightest...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla, | Title: Core Curriculum, I Loathe You | 10/3/2005 | See Source »

...much has been given,” must ourselves give back. What I am saying is that we as students have a serious responsibility to give a good deal of thought while we are here to what our social obligations are as the supposed “best and brightest.” Furthermore, the administration of this university should stop trying to hide its passivity on the matter and instead seize the opportunity to address this dilemma through the ongoing Curricular Review. Perhaps we as students have the right to ask the most for our money, but it?...

Author: By Henry Seton, | Title: No Strings Attached | 9/29/2005 | See Source »

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