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...would have been more interesting if she had gone into specifics on a few issues,” said Thomas A. Sampson, a doctoral candidate in economics. “She said she didn’t think the Iraq war was a good idea and that it’d be a good idea if it ended but she didn’t talk at all about the specifics about how you might withdraw troops without causing more problems than there are already...
...Report this past February and summed up the brain in 5 words. Can you sum up being an academic rock star in 5 words? Bonus rock star points for fewer words. SP: Oh my goodness, (long swig of coffee). Deep ideas, light touch.8. FM: In a similar vein, Geoffrey Sampson wrote an entire book countering the arguments in The Language Instinct. We think that makes you something of a badass. Can you talk a little bit about what the word badass says about human nature?SP: I think the “ass” is just like...
...campus and in the campus vicinity rose slightly from 2005 to 2006. “Our violent crime statistics have remained fairly consistent and our property crime has dramatically decreased over the last several years,” Catalano said. According to Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson, an expert on community crime, Harvard might be a unique case among American colleges when it comes to crime. “Harvard is a major tourist destination and every day, thousands of visitors descend upon campus,” said Sampson. “What that means is that there...
...W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. “The Moynihan report, I think, did not get a fair hearing. For that reason, we organized this conference today,” said Douglass S. Massey, president of the AAPSS. Massey organized the event with Sociology Department Chair Robert J. Sampson. The evening began with speaker James Q. Wilson, a former Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination...
...there's one thing that the questioning of these staffers has revealed, it's that these were not the people making the decisions. As Kyle Sampson, 35, Gonzales' former chief of staff, repeatedly told the committee during the eight hours he was grilled: "I was the keeper of the list, not the one who put names on the list." Yet at the same time he claimed that he did not know exactly who it was who selected the attorneys for firing. And Sampson's own record - did practicing law for just a couple of years make him qualified...