Word: gerhard
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University President Neil L. Rudenstine named world famous mathematician Barry Mazur the Gerhard Gade University Professor two weeks...
...rankings have also become enormously controversial. Among the schools critical of the system are members of U.S. News's own top-25 club: Berkeley, Tufts, Rice, M.I.T. and Wesleyan. Critics rally around Stanford president Gerhard Casper's censure of the "specious formulas and spurious precision" of the lists. What is wrong, many say, is that the conclusions are based too much on input--the current reputation of each school and the attributes of incoming students. More helpful, they say, would be a measure of output--what consumers (that's what applicants really are) are likely to get in exchange...
...most accounts Schroder is nothing special. The New York Times referred to him as a "pragmatic centrist" in its lead editorial yesterday, while The Economist featured him on the cover last month with the headline, "Would you buy a used car from Gerhard Schroder...
Schroder's election means, among other things, that the three major powers in Western Europe as well as the United States are now all governed by left-of-center leaders. Tony Blair, Lionel Jospin, Bill Clinton and Gerhard Schroder are all handsome, nice guys who want more than anything else to be well-liked, and who have succeeded in being well-liked enough...
More students showed up to see Nelson Mandela on September 18 than would have shown up to see Gerhard Schroder, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton together. Why? Because Mandela represents an archetype of one who is committed to truth and who is willing to sacrifice himself for justice, while these "ordinary guys" would be hard-pressed to spell "justice" before taking a poll. The irony of the special convocation two weeks ago is that Mandela seemed like an artifact receiving his honorary degree--a romantic afterthought in an age that has forgotten that men like him exist...