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Video at Time.com To watch a video interview with Neil deGrasse Tyson and to subscribe to the 10 Questions podcast on iTunes, go to time.com/10questions
...appear effortless. In fact, Tim was the pioneer of a new generation of television journalists who got their start in politics. He was the first who crossed to the other side, but he was soon followed by Chris Matthews (who studied at the knee of the great Tip O'Neil) and George Stephanopoulos, who famously toiled for Bill Clinton. All three of them brought something new to American living rooms - an intimate, first-hand understanding of the compromises and agonies of governing and campaigning. All three of them knew what it was like to be in the room when decisions...
...relatively calm Al-Muthanna and Dhi Qar provinces. They've protected reconstruction workers, trained Iraqi police and soldiers, gathered intelligence, fostered amity among local leaders, and promoted democracy and the rule of law. "They trained the local security forces and restored confidence," said the Australia Defence Association's Neil James. "That they were not needed much is more a sign of success than a sign of failure." But public opinion, at first evenly divided on the Iraq mission, turned steadily against it. Now only 300 Australian troops - mostly military bureaucrats and guards - will stay in the country. Another...
...Hyman was not alone. The 1990s were a coming out party for all things interdisciplinary at Harvard, as former University President Neil L. Rudenstine was tasked by the University’s highest governing body with uniting Harvard’s disparate elements...
...Many cross-faculty initiatives were really owned by the center and therefore got ambivalent support from the schools because they were drawing away school faculty time and effort,” Hyman said last week. “One just had the feeling that we got wonderful support from Neil Rudenstine and everything else felt challenging...