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...potential employers just how I had ended up not taking a single English course during my time at Harvard, despite my professed love for reading and writing, I decided that the time had come to shop for some electives that would make me a more well-rounded liberal arts scholar...
...think it's reasonable that Harvard, being the best, would attract such a high number of talented, high-caliber students," said Garrett B. Moritz '00, a National Merit Scholar...
...Faculty members about more than just the reporting topics of the day. I've discussed with Wolcowitz his love of photography, traveling and convertibles. I've spoken with Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs John H. Coatsworth about his taste in movies, ballets and symphonies. I've reviewed Shakespeare scholar Stephen J. Greenblatt's family situation with him to figure out when he might accept Harvard's longstanding tenure offer. (He did this fall, after his youngest child graduated from high school). And I've conversed with Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson about his place...
Social science, however, is an imperfect discipline. Referring to programs for young children, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the Urban Institute and former official in the Clinton Administration, has written, "The evidence is always mixed. We simply do not know whether they work. In these cases, one must weigh the risk of doing something and having it not work against the risk of doing nothing and missing an opportunity to improve lives. It can be just as costly to not fund a potentially successful program as it is to fund a potentially unsuccessful...
...will Clinton go about doing this? "There will be a legacy war room," jokes a senior official who can't resist sending up the Permanent Campaigner's assault on history. "We'll bring in [presidential scholar] Michael Beschloss to spin the historians. If any of them has a question, [National Economic Council chief] Gene Sperling will fax him an answer. [Senior adviser] Rahm Emanuel has checked out every biography of a two-term President--and we're going to be bad-mouthing all of them. With the money left over from the '96 campaign, we'll run ads wherever there...