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...book, which is to be called “The Origins of Civil Society” and will be out next year, is a historical critique of the idea of civil society. This idea, according to Livesey, is “a set of values that anchors the domains of modern life by resolving the varied and incommensurable value orientations to one another...
...Livesey, who spent ten years researching the origins of civil society and believes the idea to be a “weak” and “terrible” one, is working on his own republican model of democracy...
...former president Lawrence H. Summers in his 2001 installation speech. Faust, like Summers, stressed the importance of internationalization, strengthening the sciences, and expanding financial aid to students.But Faust’s speech was also distinctly her own, reflecting her years spent in academia as a historian of the Civil War. Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer on History and Literature and speechwriting specialist, noted the “subtlety” with which Faust distinguished herself from the tenure of Summers, who had been criticized for favoring the social and natural sciences. In her speech, Faust called...
...ashamed because Undergraduate Council (UC) President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, the purported representative of the Harvard College student body, painted a picture of Harvard College students as immature, fussy children. In his grandiose address on student citizenship, Petersen compared President Faust’s march for civil rights to his own crusade for student rights. He advised her “as one President to another, that change does not come easily to these hallowed grounds.” And he stood firm in his conviction that Harvard students are mistreated, and cried, “This...
...Peace Prize's description goes, the person who has "done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations." They shouldn't. Climate change is already a key instigator of conflict in areas like Darfur, where drought likely worsened by global warming helped trigger a civil war that has claimed over 200,000 lives. (Nor are Gore and the IPCC the first greens to win the Peace Prize; that would be the Kenyan Wangari Maathai, a conservationist and political activist who won in 2004.) As the IPCC's own reports this year show, unabated global warming will likely lead...