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...will be succeeded by Black Professor of Political Economy David T. Ellwood ’75 this summer, spoke yesterday about the necessity of soft power, which he focused on in his 2004 book Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics...
...said that while he doesn’t support abandoning hard power mechanisms such as military strength, he warned that the often ignored forum of soft power represents a significant threat to American security...
...America has such an endowment of hard power that we forget we need to use our soft power,” Nye said. “The U.S. has a great deal of soft power, but we’ve been applying our policies in ways that make them appear arrogant and illegitimate...
...health career. As the first female director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she helms an agency that is the nation's front line of defense against invasions from the world of microbes both natural and, with the threat of bioterrorism, increasingly man-made. A careful, soft-spoken physician, Gerberding first drew attention for her honest, concise handling of the anthrax attacks in 2001. Since getting the top CDC post a year later, she has spearheaded the creation of the Emergency Response Center, a high-tech war room that allows the CDC to link to and share...
...tall, thin, soft-spoken Witten, 52, didn't even set out to be a scientist. He majored in history at Brandeis and originally planned to be a journalist but ended up getting a Ph.D. in physics instead. By the mid-1980s, some of his colleagues had decided that the answer to Einstein's failed dream was to treat the building blocks of matter--quarks, photons, electrons and such--as minuscule, vibrating strings of energy rather than as particles. But superstring theory was considered no more than an esoteric and eccentric subspecialty until Witten (by this time a full professor...