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...fight the image: "It's not where you come from but where you are going that counts," he said, as if he had had to escape a deprived childhood. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, a former ship's steward, targeted Cameron as part of an "Eton mafia." Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Cameron's likely opponent at the next election, also dismissed him as just "an Old Etonian." Any school for teenagers that politicians can use to curse their foes decades later has powerful magic indeed...
...judgment, it’s easier for them to do that if they see historians disagree,” says Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, who teaches Historical Studies A-14, “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” with History chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74. “History is probably one of the best fields to team teach.”Team-taught humanities courses are often divided chronologically.“It’s a little better to do this kind of thing with a team...
...mess,” the committee member says. “That almost surely had an impact on our ability to deal with the issues at hand. Most people on the committee considered resigning, it was so unpleasant.” And History department chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 says that Summers and Kirby “couldn’t work together effectively” to promote the review. “They couldn’t speak together with one enthusiastic voice about what to put forward,” he says.Some involved with...
...definitely exercised an influence and made a commitment and as we move forward that influence will definitely persist and be felt.”Deputy Provost for Administration Eric Buehrens, who now meets weekly with University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Bok, and Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston development group, says that Summers’ vision will be carried ahead, even as he vacates office.“I think there is broad consensus among the governing members of the University, among the most engaged alums and donors, and among the faculty leadership and deans...about...
...expand after the resignation of Summers, with the potential to become one of the main players in FAS politics far into the future. “Christie had a very tough job in the fall and did a great job,” says History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74, one of the Caucus’s two coordinators this semester, along with the environmental science and public policy concentration chair, James J. McCarthy.THE FOUNDATIONWhen the then-acting chair of the folklore and mythology program, Jan Ziolkowski, began to organize informal meetings of department heads...