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...ample number of human rights-related offerings within the university, there was a lack of overall coordination. “What we don’t have is a comprehensive program. But we now have a plan for that,” said Rosenblum, who is also the Clark professor of ethics in politics and government. Stephen Marks, the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud professor of health and human rights at the Harvard School of Public Health and a member the committee, presented the committee’s forthcoming plan to enhance human rights-related course offerings. While undergraduates currently have...
Nguyen Anh Tuan, Robin Sproul, Geoffrey Cowan ’64, and Tom Fiedler are the newest recipients of the Shorenstein fellowship, a program dedicated to exploring the influence of the press on politics and public policy that began in 1986 with just one fellow, Clark Hoyt, now the public editor at The New York Times...
...book, A Farewell to Alms, economic historian Gregory Clark notes that the yawning chasm between rich and poor has been widening since the late 18th century. "Hundreds of millions of Africans now live on less than 40% of the income of pre-industrial England," he writes. Clark proposes a wildly contentious explanation for this disparity. By studying wills from England circa 1800, he finds that rich families tended to reproduce far more abundantly than poor ones. As the affluent outbred the poor, bourgeois values like thrift and literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting...
...That's a bold statement. It's also utterly specious. As every high-school biology student knows, evolution is neither a tidy nor quick process. Even if Clark could somehow prove that prosperity is hereditary - survival of the richest, he terms it - it doesn't follow that genetics, rather than geography or blind luck, caused Europe to industrialize before the rest of the world. Isn't it just as likely that innovations such as the steam engine, and the exploitation of its colonies, made England wealthy? And Clark's social Darwinism doesn't explain why equally stable and sophisticated societies...
...decide to get a face-lift at age 77? -Anna Clark, BLOOMINGTON, IND.It's kind of funny, but I've been exposed to a lot of G-forces as a fighter pilot and in space. That caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention...