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...contributions to epidemiology, but also for his gentle spirit and character. Ware said he looked up to MacMahon. “He was a man of great personal dignity,” Ware said. “He had that British reserve. I thought of him as a role model as to what a professor at Harvard should be like.” MacMahon’s son Michael recalled how important education was to his father. “Pops was a family man first,” he said. “He tried...
...That's rubbish, says Atul Shah, a BJP member from the neighboring state of Maharashtra, who was in Surat to support his Gujarat colleagues in the days before the first round of voting on Tuesday Dec. 11. "Gujarat is a model state and Modi has proved himself 10 out of 10." Pravin Naik, head of the BJP's Surat branch, says the idea that Modi was part of communal tensions or violence is a "whole myth." "There has not been a single incident of communal violence since [the 2002 riots]," he says. "Narendra Modi is the only competent chief minister...
...should we be concerned if human rights abuses are so widespread? Biscet’s role model, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once told us: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” This rings especially true when the abuses are occurring only 90 miles from our shores...
Indeed, the model of a research university is based on the idea that students will learn more when they learn from those who are pushing the boundaries of a field. When the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) was created in 1872, University President Charles W. Eliot argued to skeptics worried that graduate studies would dilute undergraduate education that the GSAS would actually strengthen the College. Only “if [professors] have to teach graduate students as well as undergraduates,” he argued, would they “regard their subjects as infinite, and keep...
...undergraduate, Chen was mainly involved with Harvard Model Congress and became the organization’s co-president. He also served as an Undergraduate Council representative for Currier House...