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Professor Keohane is a leading scholar in international relations and environmental policy. His prominence in his field makes Harvard's loss all that much harder to bear. He refused an offer from Duke in 1993, but he spent the last year as a Kenan Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Durham. Upon his arrival at Duke, he will become the James B. Duke professor of political science and hold a joint appointment at the Nichols School of Environment...
...this sensible? There's little doubt that it's time to sort out the confusion between federal and state duties. And by "marrying liberal ends with conservative means," as Urban Institute scholar Isabel Sawhill says a tax credit tries to do, we may be able to "get past our current impasse and find common ground." The real question is whether the social safety net is the right thing to devolve, as opposed to more dubiously "national" tasks like bridge building and job training...
More generally, an academic sees the University from the bottom up, rather than from the top down. The ideal type of scholar recognizes the centrality of teaching and learning in the University. The ideal Corporation member sees Harvard from this angle. We need to stop the rend of universities being run as businesses rather than as academic Institutions, the last bastion of a liberal arts education in this country. The scholar values learning for learning's sake, a goal which should be synonymous with the mission of the University...
Recently, Cambridge University Press (CUP) refused to publish a book about ethnic identity in the Greek province of Macedonia, written by former Harvard visiting scholar Anastasia Karakasidou. CUP executives claimed that the publication of her book, Fields of Wheat, Rivers of Blood, might have sparked violent retaliation by Greek nationalists against CUP employees in Greece. In her book, Karakasidou states that Macedonians may consider themselves Slavo-Macedonian rather than Greek, and this assertion could challenge Greek authority in the region...
Hoffmann's accomplishments as a scholar, teacher, administrator and all-around guru in European studies leave no doubt as to why he was bestowed with the honor, German Consul General Walter Gerhardt said in his speech awarding the Cross to Hoffmann...