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...traditionalists is the rationale for the newly mandated study of Empirical Reasoning, which will cover math, logic and statistics. It is being added, the committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently...
...looked around the conference hall, it struck me that his target audience was not necessarily American but rather more European and Middle Eastern. Like Michael Corleone, Putin aspires to be a businessman. His Russia is an energy empire, sitting on more than a quarter of the world's proven reserves of natural gas, 17% of its coal and 6% of its oil. For geographical reasons, the U.S. is not one of Russia's main customers. But two-fifths of Germany's natural-gas imports come from Russia--as do all of Iran's new nuclear reactors. When Putin mentioned energy...
...Convexity, he took with him 30 other HMC employees, including bond investors David R. Mittelman and Maurice Samuels, whose investment strategies netted billions for the University but whose large compensation packages—which topped $30 million in 2003—generated controversy. The presence of an already proven team at Convexity helped to inspire investor confidence, even as overall investment in startup hedge funds declined by nine percent in 2006. Meyer’s faith in his team’s ability to consistently beat the odds led him to make Convexity’s 20 percent commission...
...Faust in a professional context praised her scholarship and intellectual engagement with work. John C. Inscoe, a professor of history at the University of Georgia and the secretary-treasurer of the Southern Historical Association (where Faust once served as president), says that Faust has “more than proven herself as a scholar and historian.” Inscoe also commented on Faust’s deft leadership of the Radcliffe Institute, where the intellectual and creative environment that Faust fosters keeps visiting scholars happy. “They all come back singing her praises...
...representative of Harvard’s graduate students, Harvard Graduate Council (HGC) Vice President of External Relations Jordan P. Amadio wrote in an e-mail that Faust “shares many of the characteristics—such as a proven leadership record and a commitment to public engagement—that we suggested to the search committee in our position paper...