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...Companies and celebrities have been doing it for years. Now it's the average guy's turn. "For a long time, parents discouraged their children from worrying about what others think. They didn't realize how shortsighted and stupid that was," says Mark Leary, a social psychology professor at Duke University who studies impression management. "We need other people to think well...
...said in a press release yesterday. “He has been one of the world’s intellectual leaders, if not the intellectual leader, in shaping the entire field of African-American studies over the last quarter century,”Hired from Duke University in 1991, Gates has often called Harvard home to the “greatest center for African and African American studies”—a reference that he made possible with the recruitment of a slew of “Dream Team” professors. Even with the departures of members...
...Jefferson's favor. And he's also facing opposition from within his own party: Democrats hope to blast their way to a majority this fall by tagging Republicans as cultivators of a "culture of corruption" with some high-profile cases, including former representatives Tom DeLay of Texas, Randy "Duke" Cunningham of California and sex-scandal plagued Mark Foley of Florida to use as fodder. Jefferson could be the Dems' Achilles' heel in this morality play, and it's no secret that the party leadership, who stripped him of his influential seat on the House Ways and Means Committee, want...
...this because Harvard students are having more fun than peers at rival institutions such as Duke, where nearly half of the undergraduate studies abroad? Perhaps we have a fun czar, but judging by the sallow, despondent looking Harvard students quaffing Starbucks by the gallon come midterm time, I think...
...years, coming out in staunch support of discriminatory groups on campus, the occupation of Iraq, free market economics, and the administration of Larry Summers.” The Harvard Disorientation Guide is not the first of its kind in higher education. Similar publications exist at other universities, such as Duke and Columbia, whose own “Disorientation Guide” was used as a model for Harvard’s, according to Adaner Usmani ’08, another one of the editors. The idea to produce a Harvard Disorientation Guide has been floating around for a number...