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...first Dean to confront that forest of consultation once it had been fully established was Bok appointee Henry Rosovsky, now Geyser University Professor Emeritus...
...colleges confront a new century, many of their leaders have proclaimed distance learning the wave of the future. Last year, for instance, a high-tech entrepreneur pledged $100 million to begin an “Ivy League-quality” university on the Internet, free of charge. Harvard is not immune to the trend: this year the business school decided to offer online courses, and the College may eventually follow suit...
...maybe we should. Sure, we can take allergy medication and feel that we?re doing something, meanwhile suffering not only from continuing symptoms but also from a long list of unpleasant side effects. Or we can take the braver path: Toss aside those medications, confront our perpetually weepy eyes and snotty noses and figure out what?s actually causing our immune systems to flare up. Call it a national journey into the heart of phlegm. Or a declaration of independence. Whatever works...
...Putting aside questions like whether abandoning Kyoto is good for Americans - it isn't - there are problems with such an approach. Rogue states may well present a genuine and growing threat, but maintaining a system of alliances to deter, contain and, if necessary, confront them requires leading on the soft issues as well as the hard. It means recognizing that there is not only a U.S. agenda but a global one, and advancing the former demands creative work on the latter...
Having won admiring reviews for his first novel, The Intuitionist (1999), Colson Whitehead must now face the higher hurdle of a literary career: a second novel, which, unlike its predecessor, will confront enhanced expectations and thus the possibility of falling short. If this prospect ever intimidated Whitehead, no hint of nervousness appears in his rousing John Henry Days (Doubleday; 389 pages; $24.95). In fact, one of the novel's many characters muses on a hypothetical "second novel, recapitulating some of the first's themes, somehow lacking" because the similarly hypothetical author "tries to tackle too much." As it happens, there...