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...will put Balch’s fears to rest. “I would like to congratulate Drew Faust, whom I know, with whom I am on friendly terms,” Mansfield wrote in an e-mail. “All of us wish that she will conduct her presidency so as to make Steve Balch’s misgivings inapplicable.” Winthrop Professor of History Stephan Thernstrom, who sits on the NAS board, declined to comment. Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus Edward O. Wilson, another NAS board member, did not respond to a request for comment. None...
...regularize it, make it more transparent, and make it more well-known,” Assistant Dean of Residential Life Joshua G. McIntosh said. In order to implement a more accessible system, CHL plans to work with the Masters of each House separately, particularly because the Houses conduct their lotteries differently. This would help address possible challenges of the lottery system when ensuring the availability of gender-neutral housing. Housing forms will also be revised. Students will not be limited to identifying themselves as “male” or “female” and will...
Sending Rice to salvage the ruin that is American foreign policy is much like sending Jack the Ripper to conduct the autopsy of his victims. Rice is complicit in creating the policies that have reduced our standing in the world to that of a bullying and ignorant monolith blinded by its own elevated sense of importance. Like President George W. Bush, Secretary Rice needs to admit numerous mistakes before she can hope to shape the government of other nations...
...call Harvard a “house of impiety & sin” in the 1740s. Holyoke fought back with the snappily titled “The Testimony of the President, Professors, Tutors and Hebrew Instructor of Harvard College, Cambridge, Against the Reverend Mr. George Whitefield, and his Conduct.” This ignited a war of words—with pamphlets as weapon of choice—that would last for a year...
...junta's philosophy is inspired by the revered Thai King's notion of a "sufficiency economy," which "stresses the middle path as the overriding principle for appropriate conduct by the populace at all levels," according to a royal statement. Many Thais, including top economists, aren't quite sure what that means on a practical level - "none of us really understand it, but we can't say anything because it's His Majesty's idea," one Bangkok investment banker told me. But it's safe to assume that a $29,800 meal doesn't hew to the middle path. (In their...