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...person Ec 10 lecture didn’t cut it for personal attention, so this year’s course catalogue devotes 26 pages to 130 frosh-only classes, including 56 brand new ones. Considered a must-have by many eager first-years, the most popular of these seminars, such as Professor David H. Hubel’s “The Neurophysiology of Visual Perception,” can draw over 100 applications for one of their coveted spots. But fear not, young Skywalker. Most of the others don’t solicit enough interest to fill their...
...softens the blow with a few champagne receptions.The History of Science department has quite a few faculty superstars. After a leave of absence last year due to illness, Everett I. Mendelsohn—a History of Science fixture for 45 years—has returned to teach a junior seminar (History of Science 90w, “The Atom Bomb in History and Culture”) and a freshman seminar (43q, “Historian and the Genes–From Mendel to Human Clones”). Students can enjoy his pseudo-British accent (à la Reverend Gomes...
...Mello, the former United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, a book that she is trying to turn into a major motion picture directed by Terry George, the director of “Hotel Rwanda.” She will return to teaching this spring, taking on a freshman seminar and a Kennedy School class on U.S. foreign policy and human rights. She is also trying to establish an undergraduate lecture on human rights to be offered in the future...
When the members of the French socialist Party held their summer seminar in the pretty coast town of La Rochelle last month, they discussed the sort of topics that only a true policy wonk could love. Does there need to be "a new equilibrium between labor and capital"? Is Latin America "the new horizon of socialism"? [an error occurred while processing this directive] Behind the high-toned banter, however, lay a visceral political yearning. France's left has not held the nation's presidency since 1995, and it is hungry for power. It might be thought odd, then, that...
...don’t they invite him to a tough seminar?" he said, adding that he believes the often-crowded question-and-answer sessions at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum are “bullshit...