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Next year’s tutorial will not immediately differ greatly from this year’s course. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield will continue to teach Gov 97a. Hoffmann and Skach will resume lecturing...
Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann: As for books, there were, on the philosophical side, the writings of Kant, and on the literary side, the great novel by Roger Martin du Gard, “Les Thibault” (about Europe and the First World War), and the plays and novels of Albert Camus, especially “The Plague.” Also, later, Orwell’s “Animal Farm” and “1984” and Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” and Ionesco?...
Then in 1998 the U.S. firm Hoffmann--La Roche agreed to pay $200 million for the right to develop drugs based on some of deCODE's data. The idea that a foreign company might profit from their personal information made many Icelanders balk. A woman named Ragnhildur Gudmundsdottir sued to keep her deceased father's medical records from going into the deCODE-run database, citing a right to privacy, and in 2003 Iceland's supreme court ruled in her favor...
Having lost its guaranteed access to every citizen's records, deCODE had to change tactics and approach people one by one. In return, the company promised that Icelanders will get any drug Hoffmann--La Roche develops out of the project for free until the patents run out. According to Stefansson, most have agreed to cooperate. "Ten percent of people have questions about the project," says Asmundur Johannsson, a Reykjavk resident. "Ninety percent approve of deCODE, and I am one of them...
...Three courses in three areas will not encourage exploration.”Feldman proposed as an alternative to the report that students be required to take one course in each of nine areas that would closely resemble the areas of the current Core.Other professors, including Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann and History Department Chair Andrew Gordon, also said that the three areas would allow students to graduate without taking courses in certain important disciplines like moral reasoning, history, and foreign cultures.“I think it is a serious mistake in the blanket condemnations of the Core...