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Jindal, the son of Punjabi immigrants, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and was tapped to lead Louisiana's gargantuan health department at the absurdly young age of 24. Over the next seven years, Jindal headed up one of the state's university systems and served as an assistant secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in the Bush Administration. It's the kind of r�sum� for which the term wunderkind exists...
Hudson Professor of Law David W. Kennedy, one of Harvard’s top scholars on international law and human rights, will leave for Brown University this winter to become its new vice president of international affairs. Kennedy will lead Brown’s efforts to broaden its international involvement, Vincent J. Tompkins, Brown’s deputy provost, said yesterday. Kennedy will continue to hold a position at the Law School, with the title of visiting professor. He will take over the position at Brown on Jan. 1. “I think it’s exciting...
...Jindal, the son of Indian immigrants, is generally acknowledged to be an ambitious policy whiz kid. An Ivy League-educated Rhodes Scholar, he was appointed head of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, the state's largest agency, at the tender age of 24. At 28, he was tapped to head one of Louisiana's university systems. Two years later, he served in the Bush Administration as an assistant secretary in the Department of Health and Human Services. He first ran for governor in 2003 at the age of 32, losing by a mere four percentage points to current...
...important in the history of the People's Republic, both for China and the world at large. The result of the current factional infighting will have a huge impact on how the country is run for the next five to ten years or more, says Huang Jing, a China scholar with the Brookings Institute in Washington. Those leaders aligned with Hu broadly back his (so far unsuccessful) attempts to slow the country's obsessive pursuit of growth at all costs, engineer a soft landing for the overheated economy and ensure that the hundreds of millions of Chinese left behind...
...Jesus was intimate with men and women,” a biblical scholar told his audience at Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church, a stone’s throw from the final resting places of Harvard’s early Puritan presidents. Peter Larose was hosting the first in a series of five discussions on the Bible and the ethics of sexuality at the church adjacent to Harvard Law School. “The ancients had no way of understanding human sexuality the way we understand it,” he told the audience of 10. “This...