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...addition as an endowed professor to the Department of Psychology reflects a recent shift in educational philosophy for the University. When he assumed Harvard’s University presidency, Lawrence H. Summers—an MIT alumnus—promised to increase focus on the sciences and further expand Harvard’s renown in fields outside the humanities. Pinker’s arrival here will be a decisive step in that process. His controversial study of the extent to which evolutionary forces and the genes shaped by them control individual human nature seems tailor-made for Harvard?...
...transcendence of state and national borders has enabled Opus Dei to expand into a group that boasts 80,000 members worldwide and 3,000 in 35 cities across the United States. These are likely conservative estimates of Opus Dei’s scope. Many of those affiliated with Opus Dei are not official members, but supporters not included in these statistics...
...National Basketball Association has 65 foreign-born players and is hoping to expand overseas [BUSINESS, March 17]. The NBA is still a joke and has been for years. People forget that the National Hockey League has had international players in its system for its entire history. Basketball is the most selfish team sport in our society. Until all the thugs and gangsters leave the NBA or learn to behave like adults and not spoiled children, it will continue to be a joke. The NBA should show its games on the Cartoon Network because the sport cannot be taken seriously. ERIC...
...need be we won’t hesitate to bring in others to expand the capacities of the office to serve the needs of students,” he said. “It is not on my mind to reign in [their] creative talents...
Without Codini, Harvard initially played the Tigers close, staying within one goal for the duration of the first half. Princeton exploded out of the gate after halftime, however, running off three straight goals to expand the lead to four...