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Dean of the Summer School and Senior Lecturer on the History of Science Peter Buck said that approximately 60 percent of those teaching courses during the summer were also instructors at Harvard during the year...
...uncharacteristically exuberant support for the home side. Thousands of delirious Japanese poured onto the streets of Osaka on Friday night after the 2-0 victory over Tunisia. They climbed lampposts, darted in and out of traffic and leaped off car roofs. About 100 people, including salarymen, teenagers, and one buck-naked man with a Japanese flag tied around his neck like a cape, jumped into the green, murky waters of the Dotombori River. "Banzai!" the caped crusader yelled...
...White House was content to watch last week as searchlights shone on FBI headquarters. Mueller played his best Janet ("The buck stops with me") Reno, admitting to "misstatements" about what the FBI knew before 9/11 and announcing plans to reorganize the sclerotic bureau into a nimble, terrorist-foiling machine. Was the White House concerned that Mueller may have gone too far? "Our goal was to position him as the reformer," says a senior White House aide. Which explains why the words reform and reformer kept tripping off the lips of Administration spinners as they refuted charges--from FBI whistle-blower...
...debate over recruits goes to the very heart of an admissions policy first articulated over half a century ago by former provost Paul Buck...
...Buck penned “Balance in the College,” an article that continues to define Harvard’s admissions policy. Buck called for a balanced student body rather than well-rounded individuals, who he referred to as “floppy ducklings” because they did not stand out in any particular area...