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...great feeling there, one of family and teamwork," says Wheeldon, who recently spent nearly two months working on his new piece with the company. Ticket sales are brisk, and this season will see some 60 more performances than last. And among dance historians, authors and critics the general consensus is that the Bolshoi's got its groove back - or, perhaps, a new groove that suits it just fine...
...degree to promote an agenda fundamentally at odds with current scientific knowledge? Others argue that enforcing some sort of “belief standard” among science doctoral students would be contrary to the bedrock values of intellectual tolerance on which the academy is founded. At Harvard, the consensus seems to be one of cautious intellectual tolerance, as it should be. The degree requirements for a Ph.D. reflect one’s ability to understand a field and contribute to the scientific community’s knowledge of it. As Gund Professor of Neuroscience John Dowling wrote...
Make the Bold Choice Harvard needs a visionary president, not a consensus pick By THE CRIMSON STAFF Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Harvard is badly in need of another Charles W. Eliot, a dreamer who will take risks and challenge the Harvard community to push itself to its limits...
...strong condemnation of the war in Iraq pleased liberal Democrats, but also very likely drew the attention of moderate Democrats and Independents. Such rhetoric takes political courage, but since Obama’s election to the Senate, increased media attention has made him more cautious, turning him toward consensus-building messages that have become increasingly bland...
...sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...