Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is an obvious and yet not-so-obvious insight. Certainly, all old institutions are concerned about keeping up a certain image and, more meaningfully, perpetuating their values and traditions. And the student activist movements of the '60s left us with a legacy of questioning University policies, ranging from Harvard's investments in apartheid-era South Africa to the dearth of tenured women and people of color in the ranks of the Faculty...
...least one editor who knows something about the subject matter read the article. At present, most daily stories are edited by the night editors who happen to be there. These editors are seen solely as part of the production process and are not there to "provide suggestions or insight about pieces of writing," Klein points out. In some cases, anyone with a minimal background in the subject area could have prevented the errors...
What he will get is some hard-won recognition for having single-handedly created the field of angiogenesis. Back in the 1970s, when conventional wisdom among cancer researchers was that most tumors are caused by viruses, Folkman was pursuing his own, very different insight. He noticed that when cancer cells are still tiny--only a millimeter or two across--they don't need any blood vessels to survive. In order to grow to life-threatening size, however, they need blood. And they get that blood by persuading nearby capillaries to reach out and touch them...
...presenting himself, or to what degree he is "performing," is a question the film simultaneously raises and dismisses. On the hand, his barbed humor--which the movie captures more ecstatically than any of Allen's own recent work--can easily be read as deflective, resistant to any penetrating insight into how he really operates, what he really thinks...
...applaud not only his wit and humor, but his insight into that most peculiar aspect of the Harvard experience, section. It is a gem worth reprinting in future years. MICHAEL E. DRISCOLL...