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...constructed by Gorlin and Mirvish (the book’s true authors), Eisenstadt is the pundit par excellence??a Washington operative with an inflated sense of self-importance, a political skill set inversely proportional to ego, and a grab bag of talking points in the form of arguments by assertion. His knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America’s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind...
...goal of broad-based “reshaping” of FAS to make up a $220 million deficit over the next two years—but characteristically shying away from discussing specific initiatives—Smith said the six working groups must reevaluate Faculty “excellence?? in light of the budgetary crunch...
...necessarily agree that finance or pre-professional education is a reliable road to service—or that the fate of the world is Harvard’s to determine. “I’m skeptical of the Harvard idea that because of our ‘excellence?? we are destined to save the world in ways that less privileged people aren’t,” says Adaner Usmani ’08, PBHA devotee and member of the New Students for a Democratic Society, “Harvard students do need to realize...
...weeks. On the other hand, in a large Core class, it would be more reasonable to enforce a regular grade distribution.To try to create some administrative rule that accommodates all of the shades of gray between these two extremes and yet still fairly measures “excellence?? is impossible. It is better to leave judgments of academic excellence to professors who directly observe the quality of student work and understand the nature of the course than to administrators looking at aggregate statistics.Overhauling the grading schema would also take a great deal of effort on the part...
Lewis reached out to Gordon after he read his former’s student’s review of “Excellence?? in the online publication, The Asian Review of Books...