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This has led to the speculation that a consensus-building female scientist is the ideal candidate for the job, although no one resembling that description has yet surfaced on the many circulating lists of possible candidates. In fact, old conventional wisdom has it that if your name appears on a list it is almost certain that you will not get the job. In fact, it has been suggested that “the list” merely indicates that a constituency has been heard from, not that the person is a viable candidate. In this election cycle, the news...
...insiders who remain on the list each present some interesting problems. The Provost may suffer from too close an association with the most recent administration, although there are many who regard his as the humane face of that administration, and he is an accomplished scientist who has a reputation for getting things done without scaring the horses. The history of provostial appointments to the presidency, however, is not encouraging. The dean of Harvard Law School is much beloved in that faculty which has a reputation for insisting on its own priorities. It refused to consider a move to Allston...
...dialogue between Dawkins and Collins, it was the atheistic rational scientist, Dawkins, who literally and figuratively had the final word. Religion is truly man's ineffectual and limited way of trying to explain and understand God. As Dawkins explains, if there is a God, it would be a lot bigger and more incomprehensible than anything any religion has to offer and more than even science can explain. God is beyond religion, beyond laws and beyond science. As a practicing Catholic with some faith and a strong belief in logical reason, I thank you, Richard, for your rational and scientific description...
...influence and retaining power. "Lula is going to need the votes of the PMDB to pass his reform projects but the PMDB is the party of the status quo and an alliance with them is going to make any reforms difficult," said Joao Augusto de Castro Neves, a political scientist at the Brazilian Institute of Political Studies. "I am not optimistic that much is going to change...
...recently sold for $140 million, making it the world’s most expensive masterpiece. The Harvard investigation was a collaboration between Harry Cooper, a curator of modern art at Harvard’s Fogg Art Museum; Narayan Khandekar, a senior conservation scientist at the Straus Center for Conservation, an arm of the Harvard museums; and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro and Christina B. Rosenberger of Havard’s Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art. The analysis of pigments and binding media was conducted largely at the Straus Center. Alex Matter—the son of photographer Herbert Matter...