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...social networks and the associated norms of trust and reciprocity—is useful to a host of public goods. Social capital promotes more responsive governmental institutions, improved education, safer streets, economic growth and even general health and happiness. But as Stanfield Professor for International Peace Robert D. Putnam described in Bowling Alone, this valuable stock of social capital has dwindled over the last generation, both in formal and informal spheres...
Robert D. Putnam, now Malkin professor of public policy, had stepped down in 1991 after a rocky two years as dean. He was succeeded by Albert Carnesale, who was quickly tapped to be the University’s provost.Putnam said Nye was able to combine high-quality scholarship with relevance to government—two areas that he said have always been the school’s major challenge...
...work, his own scholarship, in his own life basically, he’s successfully been outstanding in both those dimensions,” Putnam said. “We are clearly...in a more distinguished place intellectually than we were when he took over...
...Putnam Avenue resident reported that a 15-year-old female staying at her house stole about 40 prescription pills from her drawer. The suspect was later taken into police custody...
...wild card," notes James Mitchell, analyst at the brokerage firm Putnam Lovell. "He hasn't been out front before. That's where he's really got to pick up the slack." Prince doesn't necessarily accept that. "Everybody's personality is different," he told TIME. "I don't expect to see myself in the society pages." That's fine with Citi's board. "What good is a high profile?" says Richard Parsons, who is CEO of AOL Time Warner (which publishes TIME) and a Citi director. "We need somebody who can actually do some stuff...