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...renowned historian who specializes in 19th century America, Faust has nonetheless gained a reputation as a “scientifically literate” administrator—one, perhaps, who could manage the complicated task of developing a science-focused campus in Allston...
Polish Academy of Sciences historian Andrzej Friszke and others estimate that 10% of priests cooperated in some way. "When they wanted to have a street procession or to renovate a church," he says, "they had to talk to the secret service, who used such occasions to entice priests into cooperation...
According to Marek Lasota, a historian at the inr, a reckoning is overdue. It is prerequisite, he says, for "a full knowledge of our own history...
While A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, donated the funds for Lowell Lecture Hall before he became Harvard's 22nd president, the initial gift was anonymous and the building was not named in his honor until after his 1943 death, according to historian Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70. The Jan. 10 story "A Presidency Unsealed" incorrectly reported that the naming of the lecture hall preceded Lowell's rise to Harvard's top post...
...There were no answers today to that question - and there are unlikely to be. Bush talked vaguely about benchmarks, but he did not say what would happen if the Iraqis fail to meet them. The framers of the surge - a military historian and a retired general working under the auspices of the American Enterprise Institute - envisioned it taking 18-24 months to stabilize Baghdad and did not tie it to any particular progress by the government. But whatever the levers, there is no agreement that the U.S. can sustain a surge for that long without a significant drop in readiness...