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...Bernanke is in favor of inflation targeting,” said Nobel Laureate Robert M. Solow ’44-’47, an Institute Professor Emeritus at MIT who taught Bernanke as a graduate student there. “Greenspan was always against that...
...That changed in 2003, when a 26-year-old MIT graduate shocked Cambridge’s political establishment by nearly nabbing a seat on the City Council—almost entirely on the basis of student votes. Matt DeBergalis, a software engineer, canvassed dorms and dining halls at Harvard and MIT, spearheading a voter-registration drive and capturing the attention of a notoriously aloof constituency. When the dust settled, DeBergalis had come within 137 votes of election, finishing just behind the nine incumbent councillors. Students had played a larger role in the race than anyone would have expected...
...arouse the interest of students and the student community to get them mobilized,” Koocher says. “There really has to be something burning.” He adds that candidates have to “bring the issues home to Harvard and MIT...
...forced to go to Yale but also to those unfortunate in a legitimate sense: those unable due to any number of financial or political constraints to take the plunge and devote four solid years of their lives to academia. MIT’s OpenCourseWare project, which takes select MIT classes and makes all of the imporstant materials available for free online, tries to capitalize (in a social, rather than financial, sense) on this idea.We likely won’t get to pick which parts of the Harvard experience are fundamentally delocalized by technology: progress has a way of nosing...
...released last week, were determined by an online vote in which the public was able to rank their top five preferences from the list of 100. Following this winnowing, most Harvard professors who were initially included found themselves between the 20th and 50th rankings.Noam Chomsky, professor of linguistics at MIT, received the highest number of votes, with more than 4,800 out of a total of more than 20,000.The original list featured a range of Harvard notables, including University President Lawrence H. Summers, who placed 60th in the final ranking.Only Sen, who was ranked eighth, landed a spot...