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...launch of Sputnik threw America into catch-up mode, funding for astrophysical research became very readily available, recalled Robert J. Davis ’51, who was a Harvard graduate student doing astronomy research at the time...
...simplest thing we could have done. But we did not believe that would be the best way to serve students, and so we embarked on an ambitious plan to get Gen Ed courses available to students—in a kind of “preview” mode for the program—in 08-09. Before the year is out, we should have about 15 new or significantly revised courses on the General Education menu, developed or revised specifically to meet General Education guidelines, in addition to at least that many Core classes that already meet those guidelines...
...hard for this to happen," says a friend. Hillary is more opaque about what she might want, divulging little even to those who see and talk to her every day. "It's as plain as the nose on your face that this whole thing has shifted to a different mode," says a top Clinton strategist. "But I don't know what she wants. I don't know what she's thinking...
...little longer" as help was on the way. By the second day of the crisis, an exhausted Wen sometimes appeared to be near tears himself as he attempted to comfort yet another weeping victim. The media was "not shy at all about showing him in full crisis mode, much more unsanitized stuff than would normally be allowed" by the state propaganda machine, says Beijing-based scholar Russell Leigh Moses. "The government's legitimacy is very much dependent on its ability to show that it can care for and look after ordinary Chinese, and this case is one where they have...
Colton's account sticks closely to the biographical mode and largely avoids big, historical controversies. Sometimes, perhaps, he underplays the man's animal exuberance. Yeltsin, after all, played the spoons on the heads of his ministers - hardly the behavior of an average statesman. But Colton's research is thorough and his chronicle lively and measured. It's fitting, too, that Yeltsin has sprung his last surprise by finding a biographer to rank him, justifiably, among the politicians with the greatest impact on the 20th century...