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...book, “The Harvard Century,” Richard Norton Smith ’75 writes, “Battered by Vietnam and Watergate, drained by inflation, adrift under commonplace leadership, Americans turned inward in the Seventies. So did Harvard.” The sheets of protective plastic hastily thrown up over the windows of the president’s office in ’69 were still there, but they never needed to serve their purpose. Government professor Stanley H. Hoffman said about the student body, “They have the bizarre notion that a university...

Author: By Mark J. Chiusano, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard That They Knew | 3/11/2010 | See Source »

Efforts to expand the engineering sciences curriculum first began under the leadership of then-Dean Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar and Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: SEAS Creates New Concentration | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

Several Tea Partyers rejected the analogy, saying the crowded field attests to Perriello's flaws and the growing conviction that spendthrift politicians have brought the U.S. to the brink of ruin. But many hold both parties responsible. Several of the candidates griped about the local Republican leadership's decision to choose the party's nominee through a primary - which favors household names like Hurt - instead of a convention, which would level the playing field and curb costs. If Hurt is the nominee, says Feigel, the Tea Party Web designer, "I may stay home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Too Many Tea Partyers Spoil the Revolution? | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...Chang also notes that China is just two years away from an expected reconfiguration of its leadership. President Hu Jintao is expected to step down, and will want to secure high positions for his political allies. Drastically curtailing defense spending could alienate the military, whose support he needs to ensure top spots for his proteges. "The new round of political power struggle is continuing," Chang says. "You have to give souvenirs to the armed forces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Is China Slowing its Military Spending? | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...Netanyahu, after taking office, came around to talking of a two-state solution, which he had previously rejected, but at the same time he defined Palestinian statehood in terms too limited to be acceptable to the Palestinian leadership. Netanyahu had publicly opposed the offers made to the Palestinians by previous Israeli governments, and his government made clear last week that new talks would not begin from understandings reached with any of his predecessors but would instead start from scratch - a position vehemently rejected by the Palestinians. Of course, none of those previous offers had been accepted by the Palestinian leadership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israelis and Palestinians: Agreeing to Talk, and to Fail | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

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