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Does serendipity really matter? Consider a clue, coming from a small experiment in democracy, conducted by several colleagues and me in Colorado a few years back. About 60 American citizens were brought together and assembled into 10 groups, each consisting of five or six people. Members of each group were asked to deliberate on three of the most controversial issues of the day: Should the United States sign an international treaty to combat global warming? Should states allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions? Should employers engage in affirmative action...
...more departmental classes would have students from a real variety of concentrations. Much lip service has been paid to this idea by the Gen Ed Task Force, but improvements have remained laughable. It still makes the front page of this newspaper when the Gen Ed Standing Committee approves another six classes to meet its requirements. If any substantial change is going to happen, that number needs to be in the high hundreds...
...learned my prognosis, it became clear that grand elections would be the least of my concerns. I would need surgery, be home for six weeks, on crutches for three months, and—if all went well—I would be off a cane in five. Forget sculling on the Charles—my chief concern suddenly was being able to walk at Commencement...
...Twenty-six years after his graduation, Minot won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of a liver treatment for anemia...
...initiative’s director was Hyman himself, then an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, who would pledge to emphasize “reviewing and getting a handle on interfaculty initiatives” when he became provost six years later...