Word: dreamings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...suffer from a crippling insufficiency of space. Alyssa A. Goodman, an astronomy professor who served on the Provost’s Advisory Group on Science at the time, recalls the visionary scope of Summers’ ambitions.“A faculty group is not usually convened to just dream big,” Goodman says. “But everyone was told, ‘We want to know what you would do if you didn’t have to worry about the costs.’ It was kind of refreshing.” Summers?...
...Harvard can be proud of its bold new initiatives in the sciences and engineering, and of course many of us dream of new initiatives in the Humanities as well. But will our dreams land in bucket one or even bucket...
...tried to dismiss the bizarre experience as a dream, or nightmare. But they soon confirmed they both were Borges—one in Cambridge, on the Charles’ shore, the other in Geneva, on the banks of the Rhône; one lecturing at Harvard, the other composing his first poems; one cynical about the unstoppable march of History, the other waxing idyllic on the brotherhood of all men; one at the dusk of life, the other at its dawn...
...facto government that controlled vast swaths of territory and boasted its own systems of taxes, roads and courts. As the army closed in, he allegedly used thousands of Tamil civilians as human shields. By the final days, just 250 LTTE members remained. They died too, along with the dream of eelam...
...students into certain careers. Having a social innovation major where people could look at issues from a variety of perspectives would have a huge effect on the opportunities that people feel like they have when they’re leaving school. If people had more guidance in college to dream and have ambitions I think Harvard could be a much bigger presence in the world than it claims it already is.RR: Well I think you are a presumptuous 20-year-old with bad ideas.SG: Okay, then I will transfer to Stanford.RR: Okay, then I will call Provost Etchemendy at Stanford...