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McKay Professor of Computer Science Harry R. Lewis ’68 wrapped up a week-long speaking tour at Chinese universities last weekend, stressing the value of a liberal arts education. Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College, said that his primary interest in the talks at Hong Kong and Shanghai universities was to stimulate conversation. “I was not proselytizing for liberal education,” he said, adding that he was not adequately informed about the goals of China’s educational system to offer formal advice. “It would be presumptuous...
CORRECTION APPENDED Lawrence H. Summers presented a “hypothesis” about the genetic code of women and lost his job. Thomas R. Cech presented a hypothesis about the genetic code of a tiny protozoan and won a Nobel Prize...
...having to confront. "There's a realization that executives will have to deal with different dynamics going forward," Spelman says-an unsettling reality for companies that have tended to look at the world from a narrowly national angle. He cites research and development as a prime example: R&D centers, once kept close to domestic headquarters, have been springing up around the world as companies seek to lower product-development costs. China and India are attracting the most investment dollars, but other locations are also rapidly emerging. For example, Motorola, Capgemini and Delphi are all setting up R&D centers...
...love you, Ash!" Abhishek Bachchan, a rising actor and son of Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan, enters to girlish squeals not heard since Hrithik Roshan last went topless in public. Mani Ratnam, who is internationally the most revered writer-director of Indian films, said a few words. Composer A R Rahman, whose hundred or so film scores have made him arguably the world's all-time top-selling recording artist, appeared but remained silent. The house lights dimmed and Guru began...
...school doesn’t tell you about anything else that’s illegal under federal or state law. As an adult, it’s kind of like, you need to know what you’re doing,” says Andrew R. Granoff...