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Miron said the course now features a stronger emphasis on multi-variable calculus than last year, when it was taught by the College’s chief planning officer, Jeffrey Wolcowitz. Multi-variable calculus is not a prerequisite for the course...
Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison, Jr., who once taught Ban in a course entitled “Central Challenges in American Foreign Policy,” described Ban as a “very good student” and Ban is likewise enthusiastic about Harvard, returning for an Institute of Politics Forum in 2005, and describing his years at the Kennedy School as “golden,” according to the website of the Center for U.N. Reform Education, a New York-based nonprofit research group associated with the U.N. Department of Public Information...
...rich wetlands in the Tibetan Autonomous Region earned him the Chinese government's ire when the bank pulled out in 1999. Tsering Dorje was detained, forced to sign a confession that he was working against his country and warned away from further activism. In the years that followed, he taught villagers how to raise seedlings and plant trees, and planned to launch an environment-themed Tibetan-language newspaper?only to have the authorities reject his approval requests. "If I didn't have support from the government, I knew I couldn't make a difference," he says...
...mystery that Christians are asked to embrace is not that Jesus was God but that he was God-made-man, which is to say, prone to the feelings and doubts and joys and agonies of being human. Jesus himself seemed to make a point of that. He taught in parables rather than in abstract theories. He told stories. He had friends. He got to places late; he misread the actions of others; he wept; he felt disappointment; he asked as many questions as he gave answers; and he was often silent in self-doubt or elusive or afraid...
...interview after his speech. “I think they want to play that kind of role today. The real challenge is giving them the opportunity to do it.” Kennedy said that part of the IOP’s legacy was its ability to translate material taught in classrooms into real-life scenarios. “A number of students have come and worked in the Senate, in the House, so they are taking their experiences at the Institute and are getting a lot of opportunities for public service and I think that’s exciting...