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AMERICAN SCHOLAR CALLED Robert Ball the "undisputed spiritual leader" of Social Security. Ball, who joined the program in 1939 (four years after its creation), rose to become its commissioner under Presidents Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. He expanded benefits, led the development of Medicare and drafted a bill proposing universal health insurance. Ball was pivotal to the program's 1983 bailout and as recently as last year was drafting alternatives to President Bush's privatization plans, which he detested...
...Staff writer Robert T. Hamlin can be reached at rhamlin@fas.harvard.edu...
...talking about the election. We were talking about bestseller lists. “Bestseller lists are like the Top 40 in music or presidential campaigns,” Pinker said. “Chance fluctuations tend to be amplified.” Pinker united with fellow literary luminaries Robert Pinsky, Leslie Epstein, and Maureen McLane to decry bestseller lists at an event called “The Best Recommended: A National Book Critics Circle Project,” co-sponsored by the Harvard Book Store and held at the Brattle Theatre on Wednesday, Feb. 6. The National Book Critics Circle...
...their first semesters at Harvard, many students are daunted by introductory classes that are “bigger than [their] entire high school,” says Robert A. Lue, a professor of molecular and cellular biology who teaches the massive course Life Sciences 1a, which boasted an enrollment of 590 undergraduates last semester...
...effect is often jarring, in Washington, when someone inside the Beltway utters an uncomfortable truth. That's what Defense Secretary Robert Gates did at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, putting a damper on pressure from his own Air Force for Congress to buy more F-22 fighters. Gates believes the 183 F-22s currently planned are sufficient. "I know that the Air Force is up here and around talking about 350 or something on that order," the Secretary said. But buying more of the costly F-22 will come at the expense of the new F-35 Joint...