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...when Berkeley activist and education scholar Pedro Noguera told the university's student newspaper he was accepting a position at Harvard in part because the venerable New England institution had a stronger commitment to diversity, more than a few jaws dropped in amazement...
...Scholar and an Activist...
...wonderful appointment for Harvard...a terrific scholar-activist," Murphy says...
That he only partly succeeded is one of the many charms of Wild Fruits (Norton; 409 pages; $29.95), which finally sees print thanks to the heroic editing efforts of Thoreau scholar Bradley Dean. Thoreau left the Wild Fruits manuscript neatly stacked and wrapped at the time of his death, but much jumbling and shuffling occurred as the papers passed from owner to owner. That confusion, plus Thoreau's notoriously hen-scratched handwriting, kept Wild Fruits a closed book until now. Readers will find that its preserved contents have aged...
Ornish was the guest with whom Gingrich shared the conference room several weeks ago at the slightly right-of-center American Enterprise Institute, where he is a resident scholar. But while he is enamored with Ornish's approach--and devours studies of medical breakthroughs that show, among other things, that rabbits that are regularly stroked have less plaque in their arteries--he puts them in the context of policy. He argues, for example, that the government and private insurers could save untold billions on unnecessary heart surgery. And he doesn't stop there. "General Motors ought to be saying...