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Perhaps not. But Paul Robinson, a professor of intellectual history at Stanford, makes an enthusiastic effort, like one of those tycoons who suddenly indulge a suppressed yearning to step onstage and conduct Mahler or sing Puccini. Though some clinkers are almost inevitable, an onlooker can hardly help admiring the combination of chutzpah, high spirits and a willingness to gamble...
...group of student activists and younger faculty at Yale Law School. By 1977 C.L.S. adherents had formed a network that now has about 400 members. Its annual conference today attracts roughly 1,000 participants. Proponents hold positions at some of the nation's most prestigious legal institutions, including Stanford and George-town. But with three of the best-known crits--Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz and Roberto Unger--among those on its 64-member faculty, Harvard has become the leading C.L.S. center. "The battle is fiercer here than elsewhere," says Kennedy, who jokingly refers to himself and the others...
...workplace," declares Dr. James Fries, an immunologist at Stanford University, "is the prime location from which to operate the lever of health promotion and disease prevention." Most of the nation's $400 billion health-care bill goes to treat ailments resulting from such potentially controllable problems as alcoholism, smoking, high cholesterol, hypertension and obesity. "Avoiding at least three of them would improve things dramatically," contends Regina Herzlinger, a professor at Harvard Business School and an expert in corporate health-care policy...
...Still, Zeguo's forum is novel even by Wenling's standards. Its format?from the way participants are selected to the way questionnaires are worded?adheres closely to the rules of the "Deliberative Poll," an approach to public consultation devised by James Fishkin, a professor at Stanford University. Fishkin originally developed his poll to measure and promote informed public opinion in the U.S., but he is in Zeguo at the behest of its Communist Party secretary, Jiang Zhaohua. The two met at a conference in Hangzhou in November and struck a deal in which Fishkin could test his model...
...number of A-range grades given at Princeton, like at Harvard, hovered around 47 percent for the 2002-2003 academic year. And according to a study conducted by Princeton Dean of the College Nancy W. Malkiel, 11 top schools including the Ivy League universities, Stanford University, and MIT, have awarded 44 to 55 percent of grades in the A-range in recent years...