Word: pinkering
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...huge picture window in Pinker’s office offers him a panoramic view of Harvard’s spires and cupolas. At MIT, where Pinker taught for 21 years, he says he spent most of the time in an office that had only a narrow slit for a window...
...Pinker, who was included in Time Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people and Foreign Policy magazine’s rankings of the top 100 public intellectuals, came to Harvard from MIT in 2003. He says he moved here primarily in order to get a broader intellectual perspective, though his office’s spectacular view doesn’t hurt...
University President Lawrence H. Summers’ influence was instrumental in reeling in both Pinker and Ferguson, the professors...
...player in the campaign to bring Pinker to Harvard was Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., the chair of the African and African American Studies Department...
...conversation with Summers in November 2002 also induced Pinker to come to Harvard, he says...