Word: niall
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...social sciences cracked open the works of Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Aquinas, and Michel de Montaigne. Bending the spines of heavy books purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire” and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault?...
...Andrews, founded in the 15th century, is the third oldest university in the English-speaking world. One of the two universities that is older, the University of Cambridge, has had a female leader since 2004. Fundraising will be one of Richardson’s top priorities, said Niall Scott, a spokesperson for St. Andrews. “One of the comparative disadvantages of Scottish universities is that students don’t pay any fees,” Richardson said. “There are no economic barriers to gaining a first-rate education, but the institution...
Americans should not fear the rise of developing nations, said Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, at an event sponsored by the Harvard Book Store Thursday evening. The discussion, held at the First Parish Church, featured questions by history professor Niall C. Ferguson and focused on what Zakaria described as the “rise of the rest,” particularly China and India. Zakaria—whose new book “The Post-American World” was released this month—said that the modernization of developing countries could actually benefit the U.S. Zakaria...
...Niall Fergu“Son of Sam:” One of the most notorious serial killers in all of Western history...
...then there are those academics who would rather be driven. As economic historian Niall Ferguson put it in an e-mail: “My personal preference is to sit in the back of a black chauffeur-driven Lincoln, so long as someone else is paying...