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...leading architect of economic policy in Latin America, Professor Ricardo Hausmann, was named director of the Center for International Development today as the University pledged to ensure the cash-strapped center’s future...
...some of the brightest minds and hopes of a new country, as well as the belief that the arts and sciences flourish under freedom. Other 2005 fellows from Harvard are David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography; John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; James Engell, Gurney professor of English literature; Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School; Duncan M. Kennedy, Carter professor of general jurisprudence at Harvard Law School; Louis M. Kunkel, professor of pediatrics and genetics at Harvard Medical School; Jay W. Lorsch, Kirstein professor of human relations at Harvard...
...range grades at 35 percent in order to restore grades’ role as a communicator of relative performance jars with students expectations precisely because students persist in viewing grades as a measure of raw accomplishment. Harvard’s decision to limit the percentage of students awarded Latin honors received a similar response because most Harvard students feel that they are capable of performing at the level of an “honors student...
...departments or even if one would wish to do so. But this problem is not as serious as it seems. It is quite possible that Harvard attracts more students capable of exceptional work in one field than in another, and any raw indicator of performance would necessarily reflect this. Latin and English honors could continue to signal relative performance, as they do currently, and the College could consider normalizing the GPA calculation among different fields of study if departmental grades end up particularly unbalanced...
...Crónicas” is the Six-Million Dollar Man of Latin American cinema: an all-star team of the region’s filmmakers have collaborated to create a bigger, stronger, better movie than could be expected from its individual parts...