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...professors specialize in a range of fields from music to literature, and from religion to social conflict...
...University must play a more central role in the current biology-centered technological revolution. To that end, he championed initiatives like the Broad Institute and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, endeavors which placed Harvard in the center of the life sciences. Inevitably, allocating resources to the life sciences meant conflict as other areas got less—or at least smaller increases in their budgets—but the only way to avoid conflict of this type is to have leaders whose choices and budgets are guided by more than mere incrementalism. That is a sure path towards mediocrity...
...That said, it’s a good conflict to have," he adds...
...hundred and sixty-six years ago this week, Lord Palmerston, the great British Foreign Secretary, sent a letter to the Imperial Chinese government that paved the way for the 1840-42 Anglo-Chinese conflict, the “Opium War.” It’s a brilliantly snappy name that sneakily prejudges the issue: The world is now convinced that the war was a case of commercial and imperialist British greed trying to force opium on the Chinese.The world is wrong.By 1840, the British had several difficulties with China. For a decade, London had rejected China?...
...major issue that is not likely to get much attention is India?s decades-old conflict with Pakistan over the Indian province of Kashmir. In Washington this week, India?s Ambassador to the United States, Ronen Sen, repeated the country?s longstanding position that it doesn?t want third-party intervention in its dispute with Pakistan over the province...