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...came to Harvard in 1943 from Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
...particularly under former president Derek C. Bok, have often been used as a forum to address the national politics of education, Rudenstine, true to his academic roots, grounded his case for diversity not in terms of current political exigencies, but in philosophy; he addresses the views of John Stuart Mill, not Newt Gingrich...
...what worries employers, especially small-business owners without human-resources departments or staff attorneys, is that one worker's run-of-the-mill bad attitude may be another's debilitating schizophrenia. "This is fraught with undesirable pitfalls," says Don Livingston, a Washington lawyer who is former general counsel at the EEOC. "It calls on employers to make enigmatic distinctions between personality traits and personality disorders. Mental-health professionals often find this an impossible task, and now it's being put before factory supervisors." Henry Saveth, an attorney at Foster Higgins, which represents leading corporations in employment disputes, is concerned that...
...especially when dealing with the role of pastiche in postmodernism and our contemporary experience of culture. Given that, to ignore the issue of pastiche or to write it off and say the great master can take whatever he wants and use it as grist for his mill simply ignores a real and pressing problem...
...easy in the knowledge that only 16.5 percent of our fellow students are actually of the Hebrew faith. The late President A. Lawrence Lowell, class of 1880, would be horrified that numbers have climbed even that high, but at least the crisis is not as bad as the gossip mill would have had us believe...