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...category, the study of the past is one such category,” Hamburger told the Faculty. An explanatory note to his amendment argued that “it is impossible to understand culture and structures of belief” without discussing “the historical traditions that inform them...
...emergency. Congress must realize that workers turned away may be a permanent loss and must respond by issuing additional visas for this year as soon as possible. Harvard administrators—along with leaders of higher education across the country—ought to use their clout to inform lawmakers about plight of international students and lobby for an increase in the cap.Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, testifying to Congress about the H-1B shortfall, said that “America’s immigration policies are driving away the world’s best and brightest precisely when we need...
...personal-finance book for women that devotes just as much ink to analyzing our psyches as it does to building our nest eggs. Women are "voluntarily committing financial suicide," Orman writes, because our "inner nurturer" gives too much away. In Women Don't Ask, Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever inform us that the key to getting a raise is overcoming "personal entitlement issues." And even though Jean Chatzky, an occasional TIME contributor, admits in her book Make Money Not Excuses that fewer than 5% of Americans--women and men in equal measure--are compulsive shoppers, she devotes...
Knowles, a chemist and an interim dean three months away from stepping down from the post, identified a dearth of scientists and poor student-faculty ratios as problems that should inform the future expansion of FAS. As new, high-cost science buildings go up in the North Yard, the stage seems to be set for an influx of scientists and engineers into the Faculty—nearly two years after former FAS dean William C. Kirby unexpectedly slowed Faculty growth...
...Abbas may not be telling Rice everything that may inform U.S. policy considerations either. Many within the military wing of Hamas, the Islamic militants with whom Abbas now shares a "unity" government, refuse to recognize Israel or renounce armed resistance. Advisers to Abbas say he was tipped off by intelligence reports recently that Hamas may quit the unity government and resume attacks against Israel. These sources say Abbas was supposed to pass this information on to Rice, but State Dept. officials deny that the secretary was informed of the Palestinian government's possible break-up and of the Hamas threat...