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...three of the leading candidates fit a number of the criteria that the search committee described in a letter to students and alumni earlier this year--respected scholarship, administrative skill and Harvard ties. But so do most of the other candidates, and no candidate is perfect. In fact, each of the candidates currently under consideration has drawbacks...
Over the years Picasso has been the subject of much penetrating scholarship, but also of too much guff. There have been hundreds of books about Picasso, but no really satisfactory biography until now. Those written in English tended to be useful but overadoring, like the 1958 life by his close friend Roland Penrose; or deplorably ignorant, like Picasso: Creator and Destroyer (1988), by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. To draw Picasso whole, in full context, is a daunting task; but now that the first of John Richardson's four volumes is out, one sees that it could indeed be done...
...Feldstein] has been more successful than almost anybody else at combining distinguished scholarship and important involvement in economic policy," says Lawrence H. Summers, a Harvard economics professor currently serving as chief economist to the World Bank...
...Fulbright scholarship, Feldstein went on to study at Oxford University, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees and served as a research fellow and lecturer for several years...
Sennett, who teaches sociology at New York University, is a true humanist from the Renaissance mold, and his impressive scholarship is hemmed in by none of the constricting categories in which most of his colleagues in modern academia confine themselves...