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FFIPP was formed approximately two years ago to provide coordination among academics concerned about educational freedom in the occupied territories, Womack said. Its advisory board also includes Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffry Frieden, Cabot Research Professor of Social Ethics Herbert C. Kelman and Shattuck Professor of Education Catherine E. Snow, as well as other academics from universities in the United States and other countries...
...shows that social capital—comprised of social networks and the associated norms of trust and reciprocity—is useful to a host of public goods. Social capital promotes more responsive governmental institutions, improved education, safer streets, economic growth and even general health and happiness. But as Stanfield Professor for International Peace Robert D. Putnam described in Bowling Alone, this valuable stock of social capital has dwindled over the last generation, both in formal and informal spheres...
...poets are former slave traders, including John Newton, the slaver turned evangelist amd abolitionist whose famous lyrics about God's "amazing grace . . . That saved a wretch like me" originated as a song of thanks for his deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London...
...have known Bill Graham as a colleague and friend for more than a decade,” Robert Putnam, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at the Kennedy School of Government, wrote in an e-mail. “He’s a major league scholar of religion and a thoroughly decent and thoughtful human being. I expect him to be an outstanding dean of the divinity school...
...Cores that are rated easiest in the CUE guide (e.g. Quantitative Reasoning 28: “The Magic of Numbers” and Literature and Arts C-61: “The Rome of Augustus”) draw such large enrollments while nearly half the room shuffled out after Stanfield Professor of International Peace Jeffrey Frieden announced on the first day of Historical Study A-51: The Modern World Economy 1873–2000 that he did not intend to dilute the material, and that the class would be difficult. The hypocrisy here is patent, and, sadly, highly prevalent...