Word: maier
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...wrote in an e-mail. Historians said they would be bracing for fewer students taking their courses if the proposed general education plan is implemented.“We will lose some students who were in a sense being required to take history courses,” Charles S. Maier ’60, the Saltonstall professor of history, said. He stressed that he was comfortable with losing some students who do not actually want to study history.But many historians said they held deeper motives than simply protecting their department, noting that a failure to study the past would conflict...
Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60 echoed Eck’s sentiments, saying the Faculty should concern itself not with general education’s limits but with its flexibility. “As I remember being a student here, the real problem was that there was no time to take what I wanted to take,” he said...
...Pulitzer Prize-winner and a doctoral student are among this spring’s crop of fellows at the Kennedy School of Government’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ellen Goodman ’63, Blogform Publishing CEO Michael Maier, former ABC political correspondent Linda Douglass, and University of California at Los Angeles doctoral student Elizabeth Stein are this semester’s fellows, the Center announced Monday. In addition, Mark Halperin ’87, the political director of ABC News, will serve as a non-resident joint fellow...
...catch on. But in the past six months, word of the Algerian-born jeweler's signature bold style has leaked out. Now in-the-know editors and jewelry fanatics alike are sporting his large link necklaces, wide cuffs and diamond-cut wooden rings. Bottega Veneta's Thomas Maier describes Chemirik as having "great talent and design integrity," while retailer Janet Brown says that "clients who buy Taher end up collecting...
...this conservatism. Most of the current debate is not one of broad reconfigurations but of petty technicalities. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker has too much faith in science’s divinity to risk exposing students to a “Reason and Faith” requirement. Maier Professor of Political Economy Benjamin M. Friedman ’66 acts predictably—though not irrationally of course—when he demands more stature in the curriculum for the poor, scorned, and maligned discipline of economics. Professor of Biology and of Geology Charles R. Marshall, who teaches...