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Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan has spent her first half-decade in office shaking up her venerable legal institution, convincing her faculty to approve major revisions to the Law School’s curriculum while raising gobs of cash and laying the groundwork for a large physical upgrade to the school’s campus...
...Brattle Square neighborhood.City Councillor Sam Seidel, while applauding Lesley’s growth, said he has some reservations. “We’ve got to be very careful—we’ve already got two world-famous universities in the city who are major landholders,” said Seidel, who is an urban planner. “A third large educational institution in Cambridge is going to bring benefits but also requires we think carefully about how we develop that relationship.”—Staff writer Bora Fezga can be reached...
...they are not psychologists studying sports fanatics. According to a network executive who wishes to remain anonymous, their intent is to capture exciting footage of intelligent student fans in the U.S., in order to show that “top notch smart people can be here” watching major league baseball. Unfortunately. the students are more interested in writing their Justice response papers than watching every pitch. After emphasizing several times that they do have permission to invade student space, the crew of three gets to work filming (several times) the dramatic entrance of a reporter into the midst...
...comprehend, plagued Obama through much of the primary season. His tendency to use big rhetoric in front of big crowds led to McCain's one good spell, after Obama presumptuously spoke to a huge throng in Berlin after his successful Middle East trip. Only a President should make a major address like that overseas. Obama seemed to learn quickly from that mistake; his language during the general-election campaign has been simple, direct and pragmatic. His best moments in the debates came when he explained what he wanted to do as President. His very best moment came in the town...
...even with his new populist skills, Obama hasn't been as plain as he could be. If an Apollo project to create a new alternative-energy economy is his highest priority, as he told me, why hasn't he given a major speech about it during the fall campaign? Why hasn't he begun to mobilize the nation for this next big mission? In part, I suppose, because campaigns are about firefighting - and this campaign in particular has been about "the fierce urgency of now," to use one of Obama's favorite phrases by Martin Luther King Jr., because...