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...Putnam's scholarship on the conditions for the creation of social capital represents the best of social scientific rigor, creative insight and enormous impact on public debates about citizenship and civic engagement," Frederick Shauer, Academic Dean of the KSG, wrote in an e-mail message...
...posthumous answer to Mondrian’s critics comes in the form of the Fogg’s new curatorial masterpiece, “Mondrian: the Transatlantic Paintings.” With the academic rigor and focus on conservation expected of a university, the exhibit singlehandedly restores Mondrian’s reputation as a painter who knew how to manipulate our innate response to color and form...
...crucial reason for the large number of people who have been pleasantly surprised by Bush’s performance is the nation’s incredibly low expectation for his administration. Based on his apparent lack of intellectual rigor and extremely narrow victory in the election, the prospect for effective government seemed rather slim. During his campaign, Bush made a number of embarrassing gaffes ranging from the grammatical to the geographical. Therefore these polls, as much as anything, reflect a general level of relief that nothing has happened yet to sever foreign trade or entangle America in a deadly...
...approaching sleeping homeless people burrowed in blankets. But he called at 3 p.m. on his cell phone, and the University police came. Donning gloves, they shook the homeless man, paused a moment and rolled him over. As his body turned, his arms remained locked above his head in rigor mortis. My roommates and I winced. Within minutes a chorus of sirens and flashing lights arrived, and an EMT checked for a pulse. The body was covered in a white sheet before the ambulance pulled away, the area was roped off, and an officer began inspecting the man?...
Allison J. Porter ’02, an astronomy and astrophysics concentrator living in Quincy House, had Kirshner as an advisor for her junior paper. Porter raved about Kirshner’s ability to mix fun with academic rigor...