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When they published their working paper “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” in March, the authors anticipated criticism. But even Kennedy School of Government Academic Dean Stephen M. Walt and University of Chicago professor John J. Mearsheimer could not have predicted the transatlantic storm that their paper unleashed.Writing about the role of Israel supporters in formulating American foreign policy, Walt and Mearsheimer now famously claimed that the U.S. is acting against its own interests in the Middle East because of the powerful “Israel Lobby...
...Long-term Impacts on Metro Boston,” also found that Boston’s average temperature will rise dramatically, with as many as 30 days a year eclipsing the 95-degree mark. The consequences of this could be sweeping, according to the report, including storms of greater magnitude causing sewer flooding, sea-level increase, and even the flourishing of insect populations due to heat and humidity. Paul H. Kirshen, the Tufts professor who managed the project, said he and his team of researchers generated several graphics depicting Boston-area landmarks in the aftermath of a storm a century...
...CALM BEFORE THE STORM...
...Harvard women’s tennis team. That partnership would not be in name only, as coach Gordon Graham named them Harvard’s No. 1 doubles team this fall, creating in the process a dual force that would take women’s collegiate tennis by storm. Anderson, who hails from Australia, and O’Riain, who is from Ireland, immediately formed a chemistry on the court. “We just clicked,” Anderson said. “We’re both from overseas, we’re both foreign, and we have...
Getting into the College is one thing. Thriving, at least for some black students and women, may be altogether different, a 1982 Harvard report suggested.Two hundred students threatened to storm Mass. Hall on an October day in 1980 to protest the report, written by a special assistant to then-University president Derek C. Bok. The report suggested that black students and women at the University perform poorer academically than their test scores would predict.The assistant, Robert E. Klitgaard ’68, also suggested in his findings that affirmative action might not be working, that it’s unclear...