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...memoir, Schlesinger wrote that he grew bored by his junior year, only drawn out of his doldrums by his History and Literature thesis on the New England Transcendentalist Orestes A. Brownson...
...with the proposed MIT merger, the plan has drawn its share of criticism, largely from those who argue that a technological school and a liberal arts education are mutually incompatible. But unlike Eliot and Pritchett, today’s faculty and administrators feel they have the opportunity—and the obligation—to prove those critics wrong...
...KSG’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy. “And that is a rare and valuable talent in American journalism today.” The two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist joined the New York Times in 1984 as an economics reporter and has since drawn accolades for his correspondence from places as far flung as Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Beijing and Tokyo. Kristof was a “perfect” choice to deliver remarks to the KSG graduating class, according to a statement from KSG Senior Associate Dean and Director of Degree Programs Joseph...
...killed in 2002 by the Beltway Sniper, Lee Boyd Malvo, were shocked when they learned that his sketch of Osama bin Laden was for sale on murderauction.com. The starting bid was $399, but so far the Canadian seller nicknamed "Redrum" - murder spelled backwards - has yet to sell the crudely drawn portrait. "It would be worthless without Malvo's name on it," Kahan says. "It is profit from ill-gotten notoriety...
...38th parallel, which divides Korea roughly in half, was drawn up in 1945, at the Potsdam conference near the end of World War II. The Soviets would get the northern half of Korea (formerly occupied by Imperial Japan) and the U.S. the south. In 1953, after three years of bloody war, North Korea (and its principal ally, China) and the U.S., South Korea and others in a United Nations coalition agreed to a cease-fire. They drew a line in the sand - or rather, in this case, in the rugged terrain in the middle of the Korean peninsula - where...