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...fewer hours of traditional lectures. “There were a lot of jokes about the New Pathway afternoon naps.”Tosteson also recognized the need to embrace cutting-edge and outward-looking research by reconfiguring the Medical School’s academic departments. His tenure saw the creation of the Departments of Cell Biology, Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Health Care Policy, and Social Medicine (renamed the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine). He also made plans to delve into functional genomics, even as some questioned the importance of the field.Though Tosteson implemented sweeping reforms, including...
...Bush administration certainly lost its reputation, as we saw clearly in the elections of 2006 and 2008. The administration’s opponents, who did their utmost to drag it down, now point to the result with unconcealed satisfaction, as if they were little innocents in the matter. But I do not believe that the American electorate turned against President Bush merely because they were misled by his opponents. They were misled by their own judgment. They thought him incompetent for starting an unnecessary war and then losing it; the problem was not that he acted illegally or wasn?...
...mail, Hammonds acknowledged the potential safety hazards that students had raised at the town hall meetings, but she also reaffirmed that the proposal came after a “thorough review of the safety implications”—a claim that both students and House officials saw as insufficient. According to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Michael D. Smith, slashing late-night shuttle services was one of the budget cuts that College administrators did not “flag” beforehand in anticipation of widespread student opposition. House administrators, including incoming Pforzheimer House Master...
...nice experiment recently demonstrated the interaction between nature and nurture. A group of employers were asked to hire workers who had been ranked by their looks. If the employers saw only the resumes, beauty had no impact on hiring. Surprisingly, however, when telephone interviews were included in the process, beautiful people did better even though unseen by the employers. A lifetime of social reinforcement based on their genetic looks may have encoded into their voice patterns a tone of confidence that could be projected over the phone. Nature and nurture became thoroughly intertwined...
When it comes to student life, good intentions are one thing, but good execution is another. This year saw the introduction of many new initiatives, among which were the green campus campaign, the Harvard Task Force on the Arts, the Report on Harvard Housing Renewal, and exciting plans for calendar changes. Students, however, benefit most when the administration follows through with its plans and takes student opinion into consideration. Likewise, efforts to improve social life at Harvard are much more likely to be successful if thoughtfully executed.By far, Harvard’s campaign to “green?...