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Nicholas D. Kristof has lived a little more dangerously than most of his classmates who graduated...
Alums recall Kristof as one of the brightest undergraduates on campus—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years and earned a Rhodes Scholarship. But he didn’t strike his peers as the type who would be held up at machine-gunpoint in Beirut and elude rebels chasing him through the jungle in Congo...
...freedom. They excuse this behavior with what he calls the "soothing scenario" that China will eventually come around to sharing their values, based on the assumption that democracy is a necessary byproduct of economic development. Mann calls this the "Starbucks fallacy," a reference to New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's argument that when people have more choices of coffee than they do of leaders, political change is inevitable. But Mann sees a third way, a path between the advent of democracy and a collapse into chaos that is generally considered to be China's only alternative to political change...
...slightly wary of what free access would mean for his work habits. “Now I’ll be able to waste even more time while sort of being able to justify it because it’s kind of educational. I can procrastinate, with Nick Kristof and Tom Friedman to help,” Glaser said, referring to two of the paper’s better known columnists. McNulty said that opening up TimesSelect to college students is just one of many ways the paper has been attempting to reach out to the college-age demographic...
...designed as stepping-stones to greater glories; they are, respectively, a promissory note and two academic institutions. Beset by flaws as they may be, they, and the scholars affiliated with them, are fundamentally interested in intellectual inquiry and exploration. In an e-mail, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof ’81 portrayed the Rhodes scholarship as an invaluable opportunity to postpone professional advancement: “I studied law, which hasn’t been of much use in my subsequent career, but my Oxford experience as a whole has been profoundly important in shaping...