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...With veteran status, Carlos considers himself a sage of the streets. He has picked up some wisdom along the way as well as countless intriguing stories. Over the years, he claims to have accepted fares from Harvard notables: Neil Rudenstine, Alan Dershowitz, Henry Louis "Skip" Gates and Stephen Jay Gould, and real-world gurus like George Will, a columnist for Newsweek. Carlos describes Rudenstine as "very humble, very down to earth," and Gates as "a real nice, fun guy, a Democrat." He recalls driving Gould to Logan airport, and having "a great conversation about creation versus evolution science...
David W. Goldsmith says there was absolutely no competition for his job as head TF of Science B-16: "History of Life." Even though the position allows a graduate student to work one-on-one with famed evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould, Goldsmith says he was the only one willing to assume the workload...
...Gould usually names his three graduate students as TFs for the course, and it is rare for more than one to express interest in becoming the head TF, Goldsmith says...
...most notorious of the co-taught classes is Religion 1045: "Thinking About Thinking," which is taught by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox and Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould. This class, which only accepted 30 students from the College this semester, is host to one of the most competitive lotteries in Harvard history...
Granted, each of these professors could have drawn a full crowd his their own--Gould's Science B-16: "History of Life" is generally held in one of the large Science Center auditoriums. Their collaboration is hardly a result of low self-esteem. That, in fact, seems to be the problem. Have co-taught classes such as these become excuses for posturing by prominent professors? Have they diverged from their well-intentioned beginnings...