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Harvard is home to some of the world’s greatest minds on the subject of education. We have experts on the history and economics of education, education policy, pedagogy, primary schools, higher education, and educational endowments—just to name a few areas. Unfortunately, these scholars are scattered across a variety of departments within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Kennedy School of Government, the Business School, and, of course, the Education School. The same goes for many other topics in the social sciences—from urban studies to racial discrimination, inequality to immigration...
...Whenever you’re at a regatta on the Charles, you really have to focus on keeping your mind in the race and watching the water,” Powers said, “making sure you’re in a puff of wind, because the winds are so variable...
...Allston resident Michael Pahre pointed out in one of the letters opposing the waiver, “the green space [designated in the Science Complex plans] is in a private, enclosed space encircled by four buildings.” In this vein, we hope that Harvard will keep in mind that its impact on the environment cannot be entirely quantified by carbon emissions and solar energy production statistics. The Allston campus should improve the Allston environment in the broadest sense as well—even if this is not the type of commitment that can be written into...
...rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals - 12, to be exact. Last week, in the junta's latest wave of repression, soldiers fired on thousands of peaceful protesters who had dared challenge its iron-fisted rule. But the question remains: Who exactly controls Burma, one of the world's most isolated regimes...
TIME: How are you like Eva Peron - and how do you think you represent Argentina's national character? FERNANDEZ: I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina. But Eva was a unique phenomenon in Argentine history, so I'm not foolish enough to compare myself with her. Women of my generation...