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...replace interim Dean of the College David Pilbeam. Advisory committees often play important roles in gathering information for the president or dean charged with making the appointment. But that is not always the case. In 2003, then-Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby reportedly chose Benedict H. Gross ’71 as the new dean of the College before the committee delegated to discuss the new position had even met. And professors have not always been excluded from consideration in the searches they have advised. Jay O. Light was named dean of Harvard Business School in 2006, after...
...what has happened to the new South Africa? The government argues that crime is fueled by the gross social iniquities bequeathed by apartheid. That may be true, but as Dube pointed out, it is also true that the African National Congress, the liberation movement that is now the ruling party, has been a disappointment. Unemployment is 40% overall, but in some areas - and among people under 30 - it is significantly higher. Given the poor sanitation, medical care, and water and electricity supplies to millions of impoverished South Africans, they could be forgiven for wondering how much the end of apartheid...
...infrastructure deals for Goldman Sachs. These so-called greenfield projects are starting to catch on. And some states are getting savvy about how to structure the terms. The 50-year lease for Texas' State Highway 130, for example, includes a revenue-sharing clause that nets the state 4.6% of gross receipts at first and up to 50% as traffic increases--just in case the road proves more valuable than predicted...
...Despite these progressive pretensions, it is precisely here, at the moment of “Othering,” that this paradigm reveals its affinity for gross, unmitigated violence. Because “terrorists” are placed beyond understanding, their elimination is almost never conceptualized as a political problem, but a military one. Eqbal Ahmed, in an influential 1965 article on counter-revolutionary warfare in Vietnam, suggested that American administrators were destined to decimate the local, civilian population because they began in precisely this way, by rejecting the primacy of politics. Perhaps the best example of this genocidal impulse...
...deal. Eager Harvard freshmen attending a session on “Making the Most of Office Hours” yesterday grabbed treats along with tips on how to approach professors from a distinguished faculty panel, including the former dean of the College, Leverett Professor of Mathematics Benedict H. Gross ’71. For those in search of the secret for how to manage the initial one-on-one encounter with a professor, the main advice of the evening seemed to be simply to show up. The four faculty members present said that, contrary to popular belief, professors are genuinely...