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...said. Kolstad expects to see “major progress” in carbon emissions in the U.S. over the next two years. The event, which attracted approximately 100 faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates, was organized by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP). Kolstad is the second visiting scholar in this seminar series. Director of HEEP Robert N. Stavins, an economist at the Kennedy School of Government, whose own research in environmental economics deals with global climate change policies, said he was very pleased with the turnout. “Charlie did a great job presenting, and more importantly...
...hostilities by placing her old man in a fancy nursing home. As her brother Jon points out, the patient really won't be able to discern the difference between that and more affordable accommodations. Jon, however, is a somewhat withdrawn, phlegmatic and therefore somewhat unpersuasive man. A slightly shabby scholar in dismal Buffalo, he's writing a book on Brecht, while doing his best to avoid what seems to be a promising relationship or, for that matter, any adult responsibilities. He's a grad student in perpetuity...
...look like it, but this really is a tutorial in history and literature,” said Darnton, a book historian and scholar of French history. “Our purpose is pedagogical, but also experimental...
...student in biochemical sciences and a Chinese literature scholar were among the forty-eight seniors with a little extra to be thankful this past weekend after they were inducted into Harvard’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa...
...faith relations. Religious experts say that Catholicism and Shi'a Islam have a surprisingly similar structure and approach to their different faiths. "What you have in Iran is a strong academic tradition, with both philosophical and mystical aspects - in many ways like Catholicism," says Father Daniel Madigan, a Jesuit scholar of islam, and a member of the Vatican's commission for religious relations with Islam who helped arrange for Khatami's visit. There is also a clerical hierarchy in Shi'ism that is absent in other forms of Islam. Madigan notes that Iranians have long studied other cultures and religions...