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...focus on the militia issue will intensify now that government forces supported by U.S. troops are seeking to establish security control over the capital - an objective that would presumably require taking down both insurgent cells and Shi'ite militias...
...source of advising. “I liked the idea of more than one professor, because there was more than one person I could go to to ask questions,” Wu says.With more professors, students may be more likely to find a professor with whom they can establish rapport.“If there’s one professor and I don’t like him, too bad for me,” says Amy P. Heinzerling ’08, who liked both her Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) 8, “History...
...down, and he wouldn’t be able to think any more,” Stephen remembers.Stone also taught a freshman seminar, “Changing Conceptions of Leadership”—most recently in the fall of 2004. Members of the 2004 seminar established a close relationship with their professor and peers, dubbing themselves “Phil’s 12”—a group that interacted with Stone beyond the context of the class.A veteran of Stone’s freshman seminar, Tiffany T. Niver ’08, says that...
...members of the University, among the most engaged alums and donors, and among the faculty leadership and deans...about the need to use Allston as a platform for innovative science,” Buehrens says.Harvard’s emphasis on science under Summers coincided with regional aspirations to establish Boston as an East coast counterweight to the technological powerhouses of Stanford and Caltech in California.Throughout his tenure, Summers went to great lengths to fashion a friendly relationship with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, known affectionately as “Mumbles.”The director of community relations for Boston...
...patient-specific stem cell lines. With respect to globalization, Summers has helped effect considerable cultural change at Harvard. After years in which the conventional wisdom was that a semester spent away from Harvard was a lost semester, students have begun studying abroad in record numbers. Summers also helped establish a Chilean office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and upon his recent visit to India, indicated that a similar initiative will soon be underway in Mumbai.Summers combined his astute sense for today’s big ideas with an unprecedented dedication to undergraduate education. He suggested...