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...dark chambers of South Korea's notorious spy agency, Kim Nak Joong paid the price for consorting with the enemy. As a young scholar with an idealistic desire to see the Korean peninsula united, Kim traveled to the communist North as a self-styled peace broker. In South Korea 40 years ago, that made him a North Korean spy. The agency's interrogators beat him with a metal pipe, screaming at him to confess that he'd been sent by Pyongyang to foment revolution. "When I passed out, they'd throw ice water on me," recalls Kim, now a frail...
She’s political, she’s funny, she’s personal, and the crowd responded. This was Carol Gilligan, Harvard made and Harvard free, a woman who carries the dignity of a scholar and makes wide-ranging allusions like an intellectual of the 1950s...
Cuno, a former president of the Association of Art Museum Directors and an internationally regarded scholar and curator, was appointed Cabot director of the museums 11 years ago. During his tenure, the art museums established a center for the study of prints, drawings and photographs and a department of modern...
...other venues in which I traveled, my academic career—obviously I knew I was a woman. But the more senior I became, the less and less I thought of myself as a woman and the more and more I thought of myself as a scientist and a scholar and an administrator. I felt like a woman again, and it was very odd. And so having you [Shirley M. Tilghman] and [Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons] there, I no longer feel that way. And it has truly changed the dynamics...
...identical behavior side by side, that that which is called aggressive in women may not be called aggressive in men. And I think we have all experienced that; [there is] a narrower range of what is viewed as acceptable. So I have early in my career, both as a scholar and more recently as a leader of an institution, decided not to worry about that—that I was going to try to be an excellent leader, that the attributes that characterized excellent leaders...are very similar in women and men. And that people would have to get comfortable...