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...biography of Mao Zedong, penned by Harvard scholar Ross Terrill, a senior research associate at the Fairbank Center for Asian Studies, has experienced a sudden surge in Chinese sales this year, the 30th anniversary of Chairman Mao’s death...
Harrington, who helped recruit Browne, described her newly hired colleague as “her generation’s most foremost Darwin scholar...
...ironically describes (in reference to the English intellectual Stuart Hall’s division of the world into “The West and the Rest”) as “the literature of the Rest.” Though Sen is often identified as a postcolonial scholar, she is wary of that particular terminology. She innovatively turns the term on its head, saying “Postcolonial is a way of reading, not a way of writing.” In a similarly inventive way, her own work focuses on the ways in which language is used...
...chance to deliver on all his promise; he was destined to have a stellar career as a physician-scientist,” according to a HMS statement released yesterday. “He had already accomplished much in his life—loving husband and son, skilled pianist, scholar of languages and philosophy, talented researcher, and caring clinician,” the statement said. When he studied at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), a training program for biomedical engineers and physician-scientists from both institutions, Ty performed creative research on neural development and plasticity, according...
...select Linus Torvalds, who invented Linux, the Web's ubiquitous operating system; Bart Ehrman, the biblical scholar who wrote Misquoting Jesus, a book on how biblical texts, through error or intent, changed over the past 2,000 years; and Reza Aslan, who wrote No God but God, a book about what's really going on with Islam and the West, debunking the "clash of civilizations" argument...