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...Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, Lee Professor of Economics Claudia Goldin, Professor of Chemistry and Physics Eric J. Heller, Professor of Geochemistry Charles H. Langmuir, and Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Robert J. Sampson among its 72 newest members. Sampson said yesterday that the news came as a shock. “My first reaction was surprise as I had no idea it was coming,” he wrote in an e-mail. “But of course I am deeply honored to be elected. Humbled too, considering the lineup of past and current members...
...apparent misrepresentation and her suspect excuse demonstrate a lack of integrity.A similarly disappointing corollary to this case is the apparent schadenfreude—the malicious glee of seeing Viswanathan fail—which seems to have greeted this story at Harvard and elsewhere. Call it jealousy, call it shock, or call it entertaining; whatever the explanation, people are reacting to Viswanathan’s predicament as they would to a Yankees loss. One of the clearest examples of this trend is a post from the notoriously snappy blog “Gawker,” which comments...
...order to gain perspective is narrow-minded. A disproportionate amount of Harvard students come from the East Coast and California and know little of the great cultural diversity in the thousands of miles in between. To a Manhattanite, a trip to rural Mississippi is probably a greater culture shock than a trip to Barcelona. Visiting a destitute, third-world country is admirable and even comes off as “slumming chic” to wealthy Americans, but a visit to the poorest conditions in the U.S. might hit too many of our nation?...
...Russians and by the Americans. It learned that the force and horror of atomic weapons had entered a new dimension. It saw by television that the first full-dress H-blast (Operation Ivy) had turned the mid-Pacific sandspit named Elugelab into a submarine crater. While the shock and the prayer that Dr. Thirring had felt were both present in the communication of the news, the U.S. was given-and received-the information as calmly as it might hear of any other scientific discovery...
...Incarceration fosters dependence on the system because you don’t have a choice of what to wear and what to eat. Jail doesn’t prepare you for dealing with society.” Hall, like Williams, said she too faced extreme culture-shock. “I didn’t know where to live and how to get a job,” Hall said. “I didn’t know how to iron, how to use a microwave, how to pay bills, and how to budget.” The women...