Word: insightfulness
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Harvard's facilitation of public service through its reputation gives it rights in determining the direction in which it needs to move to gain legitimacy and rights in protecting its reputation. However, since students are the primary donors of public service, they may have insight into how public service might be carried out effectively, and may have direct understanding of how their actions affect Harvard's legitimacy as a member of the larger community. By virtue of their knowledge and their labor, students are owed a substantive voice in the determination of public service policy. --Robert Bird The writer...
Vinik, for his part, has trimmed his tech holdings to about 30%, according to Eric Kobren, the executive editor of Fidelity Insight. One major decision was to sell off shares in computer chipmaker Micron Technology, which tech experts believe was a prescient move. The semiconductor industry is building so many new plants that prices and profits are sure to go down. But at about the time Vinik was dumping Micron shares, he was publicly touting the stock. The Securities and Exchange Commission is looking into his activities to see whether Vinik's comments were an improper attempt to keep Micron...
Working at the highest levels of the Soviet government before his appointment as ambassador, Dobrynin had exposure to many of the Kremlin's murkier minds, like Khrushchev and Brezhev. His clear discussion of their decisions and their ways of handling power yields an insight that could only have come from experience...
What used to be a gap in the fossil record has turned out to be teeming with life, and this single, stunning insight into late-Precambrian ecology, believes Grotzinger, is bound to reframe the old argument over the vendobionts. For whether they are animal ancestors or evolutionary dead ends, says Grotzinger, Dickinsonia and its cousins can no longer be thought of as sideshow freaks. Along with the multitudes of small, shelly organisms and enigmatic burrowers that riddled the sea floor with tunnels and trails, the vendobionts have emerged as important clues to the Cambrian explosion. "We now know," says Grotzinger...
Given so broad a range of distortions, his life presents a towering challenge to any biographer. Lyle Leverich, whom Williams chose as his official biographer before his death in 1983, has done a commendable job of combining skepticism and sleuthing. With gentleness and insight, he corrects many of the claims Williams set forth in his lively but unreliable memoirs. (Williams was especially prone to minimize the floundering and guilt of his early sexual encounters.) Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams (Crown; 644 pages; $35) is the first installment of what will be a two-volume portrait. It tracks Williams from...