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...arms control, he has not spent his career in either government procurement or with the weapons industry besides his stint as Assistant Secretary of Defense. Instead Carter, who graduated from Yale with a degree in physics and medieval history and earned his doctorate at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, has worked at Harvard since 1984. —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
...ambitious expansion of the faculty to decrease class sizes, bringing the total number to 102 full-time professors before recent departures for the Obama administration. In the process, she has poached more tenured faculty—including Cass R. Sunstein ’75, the most cited legal scholar in the country—from other institutions during her five-year deanship than during the previous 20 years combined.Other programs that Kagan introduced testify to the six years she spent soaking up a more collegial atmosphere as a University of Chicago professor, her first academic appointment. In an effort...
...clear the logjam that has blocked progress since the Dalai Lama was forced to flee Lhasa nearly 50 years ago. On the Chinese side, there's little doubt that some officials realize their strategy of oppression at home and stonewalling overseas will one day backfire. But as Tibet scholar Robert Barnett of Columbia University says, their chance of influencing Beijing's policy before it is too late is vanishingly small: "Eventually, the hard-liners are going to be thrown out for having bungled their tasks. But by the time that happens, the chance of negotiating with the Dalai Lama might...
Alexei Malashenko, a scholar in residence at Moscow's Carnegie Institute, warns against making any kind of political link even though "a lot of people have died, and those people were Kadyrov's opponents." He says, "Kadyrov has made it clear on several occasions that he is not responsible, and maybe directly he isn't, but his supporters do have his interests at heart." Some of the crimes appear to be examples of the Caucasus' tradition of blood revenge, where a relative of an enemy is as much a target as the enemy himself - a tradition that may have been...
...Weishan attributed the renewed interest in historical preservation to University President Drew G. Faust’s role as a leading Civil War scholar. Faust serves as the honorary chair of the project...