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...effect amounts to preying on you for controversy to sell books. He says you’ve met three times, but have never actually spoken. Do you recall ever meeting him? Can you divine the source of his vendetta against you? LHS: Met-without-speaking is an odd concept. I’m told there are a variety of odd statements in his writings, but frankly I don’t follow them. I try not to speculate on the motives of others...
...protégé, Lecturer on Psychology Tal Ben-Shahar ’96.Internationally, Stone is known for the creation of a software system called the General Inquirer, which performs content analysis on text gathered from surveys and questionnaires.At a time when computers were still a foreign concept to many, Stone “was the first person to identify the potential for computers and technology in research,” according to Ben-Shahar.Stone contributed his innovative ideas to the Gallup Organization by helping the polling and consulting firm devise computer programs to synthesize and code text material collected through...
...power of human thought and the positive contribution reason can make,” he said. As a caveat, he said that human thought has also resulted in much of the world’s misery, and that we should not be uncritical of ideas. Summers warned that the concept of reason is threatened today by “faith-based terror.” As an example of reason in danger, Summers said that the theory of evolution is being challenged in U.S. public schools more today than ever in the last 100 years. He said that...
...Ungar says. “But I think he really gets people who are not only good fencers but who are really good team players and work well with everyone.”As Harvard fencing ventures forward with its first NCAA title defense next year, the team concept will likely again have broad national implications. Graduation and recruitment, accordingly, shouldn’t rupture the team’s ultimate drive.“I mean,” Ungar says, “nothing can stop the bus.”—Staff writer Alex McPhillips...
...better representation for minorities, [there are] better ways to accomplish the same objectives.”Within a month, and in light of the concerns expressed by faculty and alumni, the Review voted to postpone the implementation of its affirmative action program if the faculty would accept the general concept behind the policy—something the faculty eventually did. Mark B. Helm ’78, the Review president at the time, recalls: “The faculty didn’t necessarily agree with the direction we were heading, but the collision course that it seemed like...