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...TIME 100 Your selection of the world's most influential people was heartwarming [May 8]. Those individuals, especially the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, portend a bright future for mankind. There will surely come a time when despots, dictators and Presidents-for-life will be a minority among world leaders. Those like the King will no longer be described as surprising. Able and people-oriented leadership will have become the norm and will no longer be an aberration. Gabriel A. Amadi Aba, Nigeria...
...scene could have passed for a paid advertisement: a barista at a New York City coffee bar informed a customer that the café had run out of Splenda, the sugar substitute in the bright yellow packets. To the customer, it was tantamount to betrayal. "Are you very sure?" he asked, offering to settle for Equal or Sweet'n Low. But all that was left was sugar. The man shook his head (sugar!), pushed his cup back across the counter and demanded a refund...
...feel to be greeted by a throng of supportive, cheering students as you walked out of your office on the day of your resignation? Were you surprised? LHS: It was not an easy day and that was a bright and warm moment. It gave me a feeling of satisfaction that some of the things that I had tried very hard to push for and do and to project had been noticed and appreciated by Harvard students. I’m grateful to the students who were there for me that day. I always tried to be there for Harvard students...
...irrelevant. Harvard’s best and brightest undergraduates are not connecting with the University’s world-class faculty even though they excelled at precisely that in high school. Something is fundamentally wrong at the institutional level.Harvard has begun to address the problem. There are some bright spots: a few wonderful professors who transcend the divide and some nurturing concentrations that enjoy the luxury of small size. Even some large concentrations are better than others: history, which has about 80 concentrators a year, has met with some success through a system of faculty-led tutorial and conference courses...
...University senior Alison Michener. “We caught up to Shirin and pulled her out of the water,” Cooney told Newsday of Long Island, N.Y. “But it was too late.” Family and friends remember Shakir as someone who was bright but humble and committed to using her gifts to improve society. “She wanted to go into U.S. policy-making, to make a difference,” says Khadija Shakir, Shirin’s mother. “She was very humble, yet smart and beautiful...