Word: particularity
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...chief issues facing President-elect Faust will be the challenge of expanding science at Harvard while maintaining the coherence of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and allowing both small and large research endeavors to thrive. Such vexing tasks don’t call for someone with a particular academic background; they require and deserve a trustworthy steward with proven leadership and intellectual abilities—someone who can listen and who will respond intelligently and appropriately to new circumstances...
...landscape of international outposts is as varied as the landscape of the centers at Harvard,” says Coolidge Professor of History David Blackbourn, who is the director of CES. “They should all be different and appropriate to particular people who have put their imprint there...
...While the admissions office has no special process for evaluating students who have criminal records or other “particular characteristics,” she adds that, very few, if any, students with criminal records are admitted because competition is stiff...
...Chinese Imaginary Space.” The welcome exceptions to this rule—such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have unsurprisingly swelled in class size.We cannot see any reason why General Education will not go the same way, particularly if the Faculty debates of the past few months are any indication. For instance, we were initially enthusiastic about the Task Force on General Education’s proclamation that “it is important to avoid confronting students with an overly-restricted menu.” Yet the issue...
...Zeckhauser says that Summers’ intellectual drive also motivated his entrance into the private sector—Summers joined the hedge fund D.E. Shaw & Co. as a part-time advisor last October, and says he plans to continue next year. Summers was likely attracted to D.E. Shaw in particular, Zeckhauser said, because of its quantitatively oriented approach to investing and the opportunity to surround himself with particularly intelligent co-workers...