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...students and the insight these students can offer their American colleagues--have been largely responsible for the increased recruiting effort. William E. Trueheart, director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program, recalls that contacts with foreign students when he was a graduate student at Harvard had a significant impact on his education. "The diversity that students from other countries bring is critical and leaves a mark on your academic experience. You build lasting friendships and more importantly, gain a very different perspective...
...that in biotechnology is a phase in developing an "industry out of science" Gilbert adds that in biology today--as in other fields at other times--industry is taking "science out of what is an ivory lower and showing it has serious application in the world and a serious impact on society...
Politically, too, the experience appears to have had a significant impact. Since she has chosen to remain in the foreign service. Swift refuses to discuss publicly her political perspectives, but CFIA colleagues say her experience as a hostage left her deeply disillusioned with some aspects of American foreign policy. Reportedly, Swift's guards showed her documents captured in the embassy which she never knew existed and which seemed to run counter to some of the policies she was working to uphold. "She was deceived, double-crossed," one colleague says. "She has lost a few of her illusions...
...market in the world outside the Yard in determining how much to pay Faculty members "Our differentials between salaries in the sciences, humanities, and social sciences are smaller than they are at almost any other university in the country," the dean says. "This has an important impact on the morale of the entire Faculty: we're all engaged in a common intellectual enterprise...
David Riesman S. Ford II Professor of Social Science Emeritus says he has not missed a Commencement since his graduation and emphasizes the impact of the jet plane and television in making it a more important event...