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...Oxford English Dictionary defines empathy as "the power of projecting into (and so fully comprehending) the object of contemplation." Another way of expressing this would be to speak of human transcendence-the ability, and most importantly, the willingness of individuals to transcend their own sphere of interest or private life in order to gain greater understanding of another's situation. It is a fundamental sort of generosity, a generosity of spirit and mind which allows the embrace of another's problems, an understanding of another's agony...
...graduate of Harvard and Oxford, Isaacson learned journalism the old way: as a police reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, his hometown paper, and later for the London Sunday Times. He landed at TIME in 1978, contributed some memorable coverage of the 1980 presidential campaign, and has won three Overseas Press Club Awards for his writing. Co-author of The Wise Men, a collective study of six men who shaped American foreign policy during the cold war, he has written a biography of Henry Kissinger that is due out next fall...
Raised in East Grinstead, a working-class town south of London, Sullivan attended Oxford, where he read history and dabbled in drama and debate. While president of the Oxford Union, he met Peretz, who was participating in a debate on Middle East policies. Sullivan subsequently attended Harvard, where he earned a master's degree and worked summers at the New Republic; he returned to Harvard to complete his doctoral dissertation on conservative philosopher Michael Oakeshott...
...Rhodes Scholarship, established in 1902 by British diplomat Cecil J. Rhodes, allows students from around the world to study for up to three years in the graduate schools of England's Oxford University. In the United States, the Rhodes Scholarships Trust does not require college endorsement of applicants...
...Globe group interview last week he made clear that he holds an expansive view of his mission. What happened to Oxford and Cambridge, and the relative decline of the funding and prestige of these two universities in the face of a hostile national government and an indifferent British public, will not happen Harvard on his watch-not if he can help...