Word: kaplan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...least one of his neighbors, literary scholar Justin Kaplan '45, wrote a letter to presidential search committee chair Robert G. Stone Jr. '45 explaining why Varmus is well suited for the presidency. Another, Lecturer in Public Policy Dorothy Zinberg, has a similar letter in the works...
...really extraordinary personality," said novelist Anne Bernays, who is married to Kaplan. "You want to stand near him to see what he's going...
...Friedman has a journalistic alter ego, Atlantic Monthly correspondent and author Robert Kaplan, who saw only gathering gloom and doom as the harvest of the West's Cold War triumph. His influential 1994 essay "The Coming Anarchy" described a world in which the prosperity and stability of the industrialized world is subsumed by mounting anarchy as the collapse of nation states (and their replacement by a combination of transnational corporations and tribal militia), the scarcity of resources, and the globalization of disease and crime accelerate in the vacuum created by the Cold War's end. And where the political class...
...While it avoids Kaplan's epic pessimism, "Global Trends 2015" still shares more common ground with his gloomy worldview than with the sunny optimism of Tom Friedman or the wishful spin of President Clinton...
...Staff writer Marla B. Kaplan can be reached at kaplan@fas.harvard.edu...