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...risk of being a complete failure." That's typically French. In Germany and Scandinavia, change happens after considered debate and lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends to be convulsive and born of conflict: one violent leap backward followed by two surreptitious steps forward. It's Houdini, not Thatcher. "If you only think of reform in terms of the Big Night, you'll never get anywhere," says Jean-François Copé, the government minister officially charged with reform of the state. In its own way, the incremental approach can bear fruit. Over the past decade, governments...
...peers.Empty seats early in the session left some wondering whether the requisite one-sixth of the Faculty would show up to conduct a binding vote.“It was close, there were a lot of people out of town,” Faculty Council Vice Chair Laurel Thatcher Ulrich said after the meeting.But after a few professors trickled in late, the Faculty achieved a quorum and approved the legislation overwhelmingly by voice vote.The first bill bars departments from restricting sophomore fall courses to would-be concentrators. But it allows them to declare certain courses as prerequisites for entering...
...happy it happened when I was chair of the department.”“We’ve doubled our active duty roster from one to two,” Gordon added, referring to the number of Pulitzer winners now in his department. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, 300th anniversary University professor, whose “Midwife’s Tale” won a Pulitzer in 1991, expressed a similar sentiment.“This is a wonderful day for the Harvard History Department and for two terrific colleagues,” Ulrich wrote in an e-mail...
...archetypal striver, rendered lonely and vulnerable by his sensitivity and terrified of bullies, girls and his inability to say words beginning with s and n. His family is coming apart, he somehow senses, as is the country around him (it's the year of the Falklands War and Maggie Thatcher's unexpected revolution). One part of him leans toward knowingness, but the rest is mired in a child's supercharged universe of witches and spirits and "Ghosts of Might Be" in the woods. He is reading Watership Down while dreaming of Debbie Harry's "full-cream lips...
...venture into the unknown, or put his life on the line in defense of a cause. In its most sublime form, manliness becomes philosophical courage, or the willingness to challenge dogma with new formulations of truth. Women are not incapable of manifesting these traits—Mansfield cites Margaret Thatcher as an example of the “manly woman”—but it is overwhelmingly “the attribute...