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...your review of Steven Johnson's book Ghost Map, about a cholera outbreak in Victorian London [Dec. 18]: In a world of emerging infectious diseases, fear of pandemics and a growing threat of biological terrorism, it was interesting to read about the 1854 cholera epidemic. As a microbiologist and historian of cholera epidemics in the Middle East, I believe that a multinational effort and huge budgets are essential to improve the medical care and public-health infrastructure in the Third World. The developed countries are immune to cholera, but, since they have most of the world's wealth...
...bring you a regular roster of voices and experts on the most vital ideas and subjects under the sun. We are inaugurating a regular history section, which will put today's news in the context of relevant historical events. Our first section was penned by the great modern historian and Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson, who shows how an act of terrorism in 1914 sparked a worldwide fiscal crisis, and wonders whether history could repeat itself...
...January, as you know, is a time when Faculty as well as students have a lot of to do that they are not able to accomplish when classes are in session,” historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote in an e-mail. “[The] FAS does indeed have important business to conduct this year, but the most important business also requires prior preparation...
...while the provost at Harvard is less powerful than provosts at comparable universities, according to Harvard historian Morton Keller, "it’s become more substantive in recent years, because the University has become much more interfaculty and interschool...
...What works against [a provost] in part is that the office involves dealing with autonomous deans, and standing between the deans and the president, and that’s very tricky," says Keller, the Harvard historian...