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...Psychology” is the class he would have wanted to take as an undergraduate. “I ask myself in particular what I would have wanted to know, what would have benefited me,” he said. “That’s how I construct the class.” After Ben-Shahar graduated from the College, he studied in Cambridge, England on a Harvard-Cambridge fellowship and then returned to Harvard to obtain a Ph.D in organizational behavior. “He teaches psychology differently from a lot of other psychology professors...
...three New England cities this winter and spring. Godfrey, who is also an assistant professor of art and art history at Colgate University, installed his work in Cambridge this January and it will remain a fixture in front of Cafe Pamplona until Feb. 27. After that, Godrey will construct a new formation in New Haven, Conn. and later one in Bellow Falls, Vt.In exchange, Cambridge will receive two projects from those two cities—first, an exhibition of models, miniatures, and dollhouses owned by Cantabridgians and curated by Michael Oatman, a professor at Renesselear Polytecnic Institute in Troy...
...volunteer themselves to identify from among the more than 20,000 applications Harvard receives the few who are genuinely worthy of admissions. Just imagine: the embarrassment that is Harvard today could become, in just a few short years, the bastion of intellectual inquiry that our Puritan forefather intended to construct...
...right to life or the right to choose as automatic and unfreighted have matured through their own experiences and those of their friends. It is increasingly common for Democratic candidates who would once have allowed not the least ethical elasticity into their positions to embrace the careful Clinton Construct: that abortion should be safe, legal and rare. When extremists on the right suggest that liberals view abortion as not just a right but practically a sport, or extremists on the left suggest that there is nothing deeply personal at stake here, only political, they are operating outside the region where...
...supplies a few weeks ago, roiling world gas markets. But there are tall hurdles. The U.S. has just five LNG receiving terminals, and while regulators in the U.S., Canada and Mexico have approved 15 more, the projects are hardly assured. Australian firm BHP Billiton, for one, wants to construct an offshore regasification plant the size of three football fields off the coast of Oxnard, Calif., but opposition is mounting. Activists raise concerns about pollution and potential harm to wildlife from such a large industrial operation. A spokeswoman for BHP says the LNG industry has never had a major spill (although...