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...nation’s first black president, elected by the most decisive margin in two decades, it’s probably not much of a surprise that one of Harvard Law School’s favorite sons is leading Time Magazine’s online poll to be named person of the year. More unexpected is that the man in second place—albeit by a massive margin—is biologist Douglas A. Melton, the director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute...
Harvard life scientists seem to be doing particularly well this year: genomics researcher J. Craig Venter—the founder of The Institute for Geonomic Research and a visiting scholar at Harvard—is sixth in the poll, which has no bearing on whom Time’s editors ultimately choose...
Political philosopher Michael J. Sandel, who teaches a course on ethics and biotechnology with Melton in the spring term, said in an e-mail that he had supported Melton in the poll...
...Chairman, I don't want to make light of this," Shelby tersely replied, citing a CNN poll released Thursday that showed 60% of Americans are opposed to bailing out the automakers...
...system for infusing humdrum regular-season matchups with drama and import. But critics say the BCS can discriminate against worthy underdogs and elevate the wrong teams to its ultimate showdown. Outrage over its capricious rankings spurred Senate hearings in 2003 and a congressional inquiry in 2005. A 2007 Gallup poll found that only 15% of fans would balk at scrapping the present format for a tidy year-end tournament. This year, that number is probably even lower in the Lone Star State...