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Given the recent changes at the Center for International Development (CID), I want to emphasize the depth of the Kennedy School and the University’s commitment to development. As scholars and policymakers who have spent much of our lives studying ways to eradicate poverty and foster economic development, University President Lawrence H. Summers and I believe that the Kennedy School and the University can and must do even more to advance these issues...

Author: By David T. Ellwood, | Title: A Commitment to Development | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

While broadening the focus of history, Smail said he is also trying to foster ties across departments during his time at Harvard...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Medievalist To Join Faculty | 9/16/2005 | See Source »

...modesty, like activism, is in the eye of the beholder. What the Democrats want to know is how he would treat past efforts by the court to right social wrongs, whether by busing students to foster desegregation or banning the execution of people under age 18. Would he "humbly" respect those earlier decisions or overturn them as examples of judicial excess? When he talked about the lump he gets in his throat as he walks up the court's marble steps, it suggested he is not interested in burning the place down. But the tone of some early memos, like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things You Need to Know About Roberts | 8/28/2005 | See Source »

...extendido por casi cinco d?cadas, Seinuk, de 73 a?os, tiene en su haber suficientes rascacielos de renombre, incluido el famoso L?piz Labial de Philip Johnson; el Trump World Tower, considerado como el edificio de apartamentos m?s alto del hemisferio y la torre angular Hearst, de Norman Foster, todav?a en construcci?n. Pionero en el complejo mundo de la ingenier?a de edificios altos, Seinuk fue uno de los precursores del uso de un concreto m?s fuerte en Nueva York, un avance que ha ayudado a subsecuentes generaciones de ingenieros a construir m?s alto sin tener que hacer bases m?s anchas. "Mi trabajo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ysrael Seinuk | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

Ironically, K-8 schools are in some ways better positioned to implement the ideas of the middle school movement. Not only do these more intimate schools tend to foster strong teacher-student relationships, but they often put their older students in positions where they can exercise judgment and leadership. At Humboldt Park, for instance, seventh-graders have worked with the third-graders to write letters to U.S. soldiers in Iraq. "The older grades become mentors and tutors to the younger kids, giving them a sense of responsibility that may not happen in middle school," says Milwaukee parent Tina Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Middle School Bad For Kids? | 8/1/2005 | See Source »

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