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...concentrator and Adams resident, and now an Associate Professor in the History Department, Jasanoff has only begun to make her mark on Harvard. On the way from her cozy Adams dorm room to her current office in the Center for European Studies, Jasanoff managed to earn a Masters at Oxford, a Ph.D. at Yale, publish her first book (with a second on the way), earn a fellowship at the Michigan Society of Fellows, and spend a few years teaching at the University of Virginia. While this fast-paced track into academia might seem intimidating to some, it came naturally...
...rich countries, democracy makes life more peaceful and prosperous; in poor ones, it makes life more dangerous. So argues Oxford economist Paul Collier in his bold new book Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, which extends the discussion he began in his celebrated 2007 study of the world's poorest nations, The Bottom Billion. Collier's not the first to point out that elections, unsupported by robust institutions, are simply political fetishes. But his analysis, delivered with clarity and wit, digs deep into how they increase the risk of wars, uprisings and riots for the world's poorest...
...world of sports, it’s not often that an opposing team can be your friend one week, then your biggest rival the next.Just one week ago, the Harvard men and women’s track and field team teamed up with Yale to compete against Oxford and Cambridge. Last Saturday, the two teams took the track one more time—this time meeting at the Crimson’s McCurdy Track—as Ivy League rivals.“I have always believed that when the gun goes off that’s when the competition...
...that he has gained in practice, we feel confident that he’s poised to have a great outdoor season.”Despite Weiler’s solid performance, the Harvard/Yale men finished one point behind their English counterparts, 10-9. For the first time since 1993, Oxford and Cambridge beat the American men. While Weiler has been jumping fairly consistently his entire freshman season, the young athlete attributed his strong showing at the HYOC competition to a series of great practices the week before. “I had some really good practice that week, so that?...
...Harvard during the late sixties.Beer was elected president of the American Political Science Association in 1977, and was also appointed as a fellow of the British Academy in 2000.After earning his Ph.D., Beer earned a Bronze Star fighting with the U.S. Army in Normandy. During his time at Oxford in the 1930s, he travelled to Germany, where he saw Hitlerism first hand, according to Government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, another of Beer’s former students. “He wanted to know how Germany could have fallen so far to embrace these vicious totalitarian...