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...says Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Spy agencies such as the CIA are all about cracking codes, uncovering secrets. "During the cold war," Nye says, "they didn't believe it was important unless you had to steal it. But some of the biggest and hardest questions are mysteries--and most of the answers to a mystery are available in the public domain and just have to be assembled." At the FBI, "getting people to sit in the back office and connect dots has not been their strong suit. Now they know they have...
...draw national media coverage to the numbers of undergraduates in the United States who earn high grades. The University revealed that 91 percent of last year’s graduating seniors graduated with some sort of an honors degree, and the grade inflation controversy inspired debates about whether the hardest thing about Harvard was getting in or whether Harvard students had simply become smarter and more capable, thus deserving a higher number of A’s than their predecessors. In May, the Faculty responded by implementing limits on the number of honors degrees awarded and changing the Harvard grading...
Jantzen won the Hardest Worker Award for the second year in a row and earned his first Richard Glover Ames Award as Harvard’s outstanding wrestler...
Perhaps one of the hardest realities for athletes to accept is their sporting mortality. We all, at some point, fall from the center of attention. We move from the goal lines to the sidelines. The player becomes the coach, or at least the supportive (read: over-involved) parent. As A.E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young” describes: “Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay/And early though the laurel grows/It withers quicker than the rose...
...hardest-working players I’ve ever competed with,” Bookman said. “He was a true leader, both by being very vocal and in leading by example. He will be sorely missed...