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...persuade alumni and friends that we need money. If we stood still we could get along, which is not true of many other institutions, but the opportunity costs for Harvard and society would be great and we would quickly not remain on the forefront. Harvard could not be Harvard in a very short period of time," Tiedemann says...
While Conant had brought the University to the forefront of educational reform, Harvard's commitment to its religious roots had waned over his tenure. Shortly after Conant's resignation, the Dean of the Divinity School also resigned, leaving the institution with only three professors and a handful of part-time instructors...
...paper, Yamada, 55, devoted his four-hour daily commute to a higher cause--dreaming up the next great consumer gadget. In 1997 Ricoh president Masamitsu Sakurai commissioned Yamada to create a device that would help catapult his company, which had built its fortunes on heavy office machines, into the forefront of digital technology. The trouble was, Sakurai didn't really know what he wanted. "The idea was to develop a product that uses all our senses," says Yamada. "There was no paper, no specifications. Just his wish, his hope...
...perhaps the greatest indicator of Maas' success was the absence of a riotous response to "Dooms Night," the Azzido Da Bass track whose ubiquitous remix catapulted Maas to the forefront of the international scene. The crowd certainly ate it up, roaring with anticipation as the familiar shuffling beat filtered from the speakers, but not so much that anyone could call Maas a one-remix wonder. If anything, they much preferred lesser-known but equally well-crafted Maas tracks, occasionally jumping up and down with the reckless abandon of seventh-graders at a school dance. That's not to say that...
...discussion, held in the Lowell Junior Common Room between 4 and 6 p.m., focused on the ongoing questions in the presidential election and how to restore traditionally progressive views to the forefront of national political debate and the Democratic Party platform...