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Hart said this frustration, compounded by the fierce Cold War with the Soviet Union, carried over into the 1980s, when Americans found comfort in Ronald Reagan's simple, traditional values and his emphasis on individualism.
"That publicity scared the school," says Bradley R. Carlson, a member of the committee. Carlson says the original press reports were accurate, but misplaced the emphasis onto faculty hiring--forcing Kennedy School officials take a step back.
Lewison Lee Lem, a Harvard admissions officer, calls this parental attitude "the Beida syndrome." Beida, which refers to Peking University in Mandarin, is shorthand for the push in Asian countries to be accepted at the top national institution, a tradition that stems from the Confucian emphasis on bureaucratic status via...
Like many of the technicians and engineers who run them, nuclear power plants in the U.S. are pushing middle age. So far, only nine of the nation's 112 commercial reactors, which were designed and licensed to run for 40 years, have passed the midpoint of their careers. But by...
In his State of the Union speech last month, Bush honored the collaborative aspects of his vision: "What is at stake is more than one small country. It is a big idea, a new world order, where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations...