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...probably a greater culture shock than a trip to Barcelona. Visiting a destitute, third-world country is admirable and even comes off as “slumming chic” to wealthy Americans, but a visit to the poorest conditions in the U.S. might hit too many of our nation??s “well-traveled” intellectual elite too close to home. In this way, poorly-traveled liberals have little grounds for mocking the “backwardness” of Americans who have never been to the big city when they themselves have never been...
...number of NCAA championships—just take a look at the historic run the fencing team made this year—but seems to be mired in the middle of the national pack in many of the major sports.And finally, the school recruits some of the nation??s top athletes, but until they make an impact on the field, court, track, or ice, they seldom come up during breakfast-table discussions. Our feature today notwithstanding, they too rarely show up in the pages of our very own breakfast-table daily.Outside of the everyday world on this side...
...rising star at Harvard Law School and one of the nation??s foremost experts in election law announced yesterday that she has accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School beginning this fall.Professor of Law Heather K. Gerken has garnered praise for both her teaching ability—she was the first junior professor to win the prestigious Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence—as well as her scholarship on voting law, diversity, and the role of groups in the democratic process. A graduate of Princeton University and the University...
...slew of Harvard professors, affiliates, and alumni who picked up Pulitzer Prizes and recognition from the Pulitzer Board yesterday. Elkins’ book, “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya,” won the Pulitzer—the nation??s most prominent award for journalism and letters—for General Non-Fiction.“I’m simply overwhelmed,” Elkins, the Foster associate professor of African studies, said shortly after the Pulitzer Board made its announcements yesterday afternoon. “This...
...think the race was a success from that perspective. We took it to a whole new level, but the rowing wasn’t quite there.”For 800 meters, it was there—but the last 1,200 meters belonged to the nation??s No. 1 boat from Lake Carnegie. The Tigers, perched two lanes to the outside of Harvard, used the Mass. Ave. Bridge to make its first move, taking four seats to claim a one-seat lead at the midway mark. Princeton plowed through the third 500 meters, adding five...