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...Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors...
Soon it’s obvious this man is no ordinary professor, and that his story is no typical tale of ascent to the zenith of academia. He is a Harvard College Professor of Psychology. He is a recipient of the Royal Society Prize for Science. He is a high school drop out. He is Daniel Gilbert...
...undergraduate history concentrator at Radcliffe, Ellen Goodman ’63 never had a female professor and was denied access to Lamont Library because she was a woman. When the now syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist returned to Harvard yesterday to speak at the Kennedy School of Government, she said she was surprised that Harvard has made more progress in gender equality than the rest of the country. “I thought we’d have a woman in the White House before Harvard had a female president,” she said. In her speech...
Last weekend, Jonathan P. Hawley ’10, a history concentrator from California, competed for the $100,000 grand prize in the “Jeopardy!” 2008 College Championships held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The shows will air from...
...results of the College Championship will be released when the shows air in May. Even if Hawley did not take the grand prize, he is still guaranteed to walk away with at least $5,000 and an impressive line on his resume...