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...three-year reign. The six-day visit to the United States - which includes a White House visit, an address at the United Nations and a prayer at Ground Zero - may be the best opportunity for the theologian pontiff to define his leadership in international relations. "The Pope per se is simply the custodian of the Catholic tradition," says a senior Vatican official. "He can become a global leader if he manages to embody a battle of ideals that is present in the world...
...candidates are being copied. In Italy, Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni, a candidate for the position of Prime Minister, has taken to lifting lines from Obama, including repeated usage of "Yes we can" in three languages: English, Italian ("Sì, possiamo") and the Italian capital's local dialect ("Se po' ffa'"). In Hong Kong, prodemocracy parties are studying U.S. campaign techniques, in particular Obama's grass-roots youth organizing. "Everyone wants to study how he delivers his message," says Tanya Chan, a District Council representative from the Civic Party...
...legitimate questions to be asked about Hammonds’ readiness to assume control of the College’s sprawling apparatus in fewer than three months. These questions are not born of any lack of faith in Hammonds’s strengths as an administrator or an educator per se, clearly. Her accomplishments in both pursuits are extraordinary. Rather, we raise these questions because of her lack of evident experience in administering a liberal arts college, a responsibility which carries an array of unique and formidable challenges.But while experience in undergraduate administration is certainly a boon for any would...
...This is not to say that awareness, per se, is a bad thing. If I were in a burning theater, I would definitely appreciate someone who showed up in a Fire In Theaters Awareness Week t-shirt and shouted at me. But I would appreciate a fireman even more. In an age of mass media, e-mail lists, and Youtube, when information travels faster than ever, it is not difficult to be aware. But it is difficult to move from awareness to action...
...profit for HMS in 2006. Perhaps more importantly, HMI has participated in many important public health projects, ranging from advising a major German medical school on how to educate students to masterminding the construction of Dubai’s healthcare infrastructure. While HMI is not a research institution per se, it is hard to see why its function is inappropriate. Medical education and health care-delivery consulting represent an important way that Harvard Medical School can share its considerable expertise with the world. The sorts of structural changes in healthcare and medical education that HMI is capable of effecting around...