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...hear time and time again people pursuing those [consulting and i-banking] jobs because there is a very defined path for getting them, and in politics and public service it has always been more difficult than that,” she said after yesterday’s meeting, adding that she thought internships are “uniquely important” for things like political hiring...
...while the technological path to climate-change action is clear, the politics are getting even more complicated. As economic growth shifts to the developing world - especially in Asia - so will future carbon emissions. So whether the world can effectively combat climate change will be determined by countries like Indonesia and India - and especially China, which could pass the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter any day. European nations have staked out bold positions on carbon cutting, and even in the U.S. momentum is gaining on real climate-change legislation. But if growing developing countries choose to ignore global...
...Casablanca, ‘I was misinformed.’” Richenthal, who co-produced the Tony Award-winning play “I Am My Own Wife” and the 2002 production of “The Crucible,” took a less direct path, co-founding a law firm after graduating from the Law School, yet always dreaming of a career in the arts. “Once I felt I had learned enough,” Richenthal said of the switch to theater production, “I stopped malpractice and went into...
...liberal arts education at Harvard is provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, not the Faculty of Arts or Sciences. A well-balanced education isn’t the quickest path to fulfill requirements for professional school, but rather a slow process that gives students tools through which they can comprehend the world they live in. Harvard needs to take more seriously its commitment to interdisciplinary studies that not only cross departmental lines, but also cross the humanities-science barrier. If not, then we will be able to watch the death of more concentrations in the near future...
...would be a mistake to abandon the idea of progress because history does not follow a linear path to social harmony or because most progress—though certainly not all—has an embarrassingly Western origin. As logical positivists like Wittgenstein showed, it is a “pseudo-problem” to argue over which value system or civilization is objectively superior, but in empirical terms of human happiness, progress is a fact, one that it would be a disservice to human history and the future to deny...