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Carnesale has been at Harvard for 23 years and has served the University in multiple capacities including Dean of the Kennedy School, Provost and acting President--at one time, all three simultaneously. He has played a major role in the administration's effort to bring distant parts of the University together, including working with President Neil L. Rudenstine to create five inter-faculty initiatives. In addition, Carnesale has kept the central administration's budget down, keeping its growth rate lower than the rate of inflation in the economy...
...that as it may, Justice Stephen Breyer came to Harvard at a time when the Supreme Court, though obscure and distant to most Americans, is under attack for being the most powerful and tyrannical branch of the federal government. I was fortunate enough to have asked him a question at Hilell last Monday night. Is the conservative claim that over roughly the last 30 years the Supreme Court has gradually abandoned textual interpretation of the Constitution valid, I asked. His response was that literal interpretation is difficult to define, and that, in any event, examining trends...
...provost, Carnesale has played a major role in implementing Rudenstine's plans for linking previously distant parts of the University...
...away from the prospect of creating human beings by injecting the DNA of a living person into an unfertilized egg. The challenges overcome by Dr. Wilmut pale in comparison to the obstacles presented by primates and people. Even optimistic scientists concede that creating Albert Einstein II is still a distant prospect (Never mind that Einstein is dead and cloning dead people will be even harder that duplicating their live counterparts...
...small eyes focused on you with intensity. Then he would look away, far away, perhaps at some distant vision of the China he wanted to build, or possibly at the memory of some past indignity he had survived on his roller-coaster ride between history and oblivion. His hands gestured constantly, and until his family stopped him, he chain-smoked. To those in thrall to the urbane charm of his old ally Zhou Enlai, Deng seemed crude, speaking with a guttural Sichuanese accent and always keeping a spittoon next to his chair. His size--he was truly tiny...