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With this constrained focus, the Kellers come to the somewhat structurally rigid conclusion that two changes separate the last 70 years of Harvard history into three distinct eras. First, under the direction of University President James B. Conant 14 (from 1933 to 1953), the University transformed from the Brahmin university of the first third of the 20th century to a meritocratic one. Relying on demographic shifts and the detailed dissection of many of the controversies and developments of the 1930s and 1940s, the Kellers show how the University increasingly embraced the ideal of the best and the brightest, even when...
According to Linda Spencer, the Assistant Director of the Office of Career Services, the amazing fact about extension school students is that many of them are somewhat easy to place because so many of them come away from Harvard with many years of work experience under their belt. This sort of situation makes many students see the idea of falsely exaggerating their image and association with Harvard as unnecessary...
...especially, athletes, have better chances of getting admitted than the general pool, and, beyond that, admission is a matter of chance. College admissions officers often say that they could have easily accepted 2,000 other applicants and had an equally impressive class. Harvard is a false meritocracy, skewed and somewhat random. With that knowledge, one would expect students to show more humility, an acknowledgement of the imperfections inherent in the school’s constant applications and rejections. But there is little to be found...
...Laden's precise place in the terror franchise he's associated with is somewhat nebulous. Certainly, he is its public face. But Ressam has told interrogators that bin Laden is only one of two or three chieftains in al-Qaeda. Many bin Laden watchers and even ex-associates have observed that bin Laden appears to be a simple fighter without a brilliant head for tactics. His lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahiri, an Egyptian physician who heads the Egyptian al Jihad, which took credit for the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1981, is often mentioned as the brains behind...
...TIME that the Administration is considering reaching out to both Libya and Iran for assistance, even though both nations have themselves sponsored terrorism in the past. The State Department, working through diplomatic routes established by Britain and another country, is trying to see if Iran's and Libya's somewhat supportive responses to the bombing can be turned into something concrete. "We are going to smoke them out a little bit on their statements," says a source. Through its intermediaries, the U.S. has conveyed the message to Tehran and Tripoli: "We appreciate what you said. Now what else...