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It used to be that an education in the liberal arts and sciences was devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century...

Author: By Sean D. Kelly | Title: What is General Education For? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

As readers and viewers of the third novel (Hannibal) know, Lecter grew up a pampered aristocrat in Lithuania, fond of his parents, immensely devoted to his younger sister Mischa. In the last months of World War II, his parents were killed in a Nazi air strike and he and Mischa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ho-hum Hannibal | 2/10/2007 | See Source »

Her name has been on people’s lips for weeks, and in recent days she has been the clear frontrunner in the search for Harvard’s 28th leader. Though leading the University will represent a significant leap from her deanship at Radcliffe, friends and colleagues say...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Civil War Scholar Makes Modern History | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

Second, because universities are a special kind of organization, they require distinctive forms of leadership. Above all, universities are—or should be—devoted to educational goals, and their success should be judged particularly in terms of the achievement of those goals: the education of students, the...

Author: By Howard E. Gardner | Title: Leadership at Harvard | 2/9/2007 | See Source »

With independence, America threw off the carapace of regulations and treaties that applied to British colonies. This meant we would have to deal on our own with the Barbary States. The Barbary States--Morocco, Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli--were four North African countries whose revenues came from a naval protection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Template for Taming Iran | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

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