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...members and loses 12, they close." And for the first time in American history, the majority of seminarians don't come from rural areas. Shannon Jung, a rural-church expert in Kansas City, Mo., says of young pastors, "A town without a Starbucks scares them." Wolpert recalls a professor's warning to a promising seminarian to shun a rural call: "Don't go. You're too creative for that...
Anger, by contrast, usually makes people more willing to take risks. Harvard public-policy professor Jennifer Lerner has shown this in a series of papers. She and her colleagues gave random groups of people a classic risk test in which they were asked how they would respond to a disease outbreak expected to kill 600. The subjects were told that if program A were adopted, 200 people would be saved and 400 would die, and that if program B were adopted, there would be a one-third probability that all 600 would live and a two-thirds probability that...
...director of the National Economic Council, which even in quiet times has a large staff and vast clout. He has already fallen into a steady routine, waking before sunrise at his northwest-Washington apartment, from which his wife Elisa New plans to commute to her job as an English professor at Harvard. (Each has three children from a previous marriage.) About 13 hours later, after meetings on a dizzying array of topics, he returns home to read reports from Congress or the Group of Thirty, an international body of economists, and call a network of peers who advise...
Noted health care economist and former Dean of the Social Sciences David M. Cutler ’87 will become the latest Harvard professor to serve in the Obama administration, he said in an interview late Thursday. Cutler joins three other members of the economics department in Washington—former University President Lawrence H. Summers, and professors Jeremy C. Stein and Jeffrey B. Liebman. “I think that people who have the opportunity to help their country and the world need to, at times, do that,” Cutler said of his leave. Cutler...
...other four finalists for the non-fiction award title are journalists Dexter Filkins—who was a Nieman Foundation fellow at Harvard two years ago—and Jane Mayer; political historian and American University professor Allan J. Lichtman; and University of Kentucky history professor George C. Herring...