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...certainly a leading political theorist who brings great distinction to the department," said Susan J. Pharr, Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics and chair of the Government department. "It would be a major loss to Harvard if he were to leave...
Mansfield, an outspoken conservative on many political issues, may also prefer the political atmosphere at the University of Chicago to that at Harvard, one source said. The Nef chair was formerly held by conservative theorist Allan Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind, who died last year...
Mansfield's decision could hinge in part on who replaces Shklar, the source said. One name under consideration by the Government department is Charles Taylor, a professor at McGill Uni- versity in Montreal and a leading political theorist, the source said...
...Department of Economics could soon boast the foremost theory department in the country with the arrival of MIT economic theorist Oliver Hart...
...quarks emerged from the primordial radiation "around a thousandth of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang," estimates University of Michigan theorist Gordon Kane. But as the early universe expanded and cooled, they vanished. Their fleeting existence left behind a fundamental puzzle that physicists are struggling to solve: What makes some particles so massive while others -- photons, for example -- have no mass at all? Because of its boggling heft, the top quark should help illuminate what mysterious mechanisms -- including perhaps other, still weightier particles -- are responsible for imparting mass, and hence solidity, to the physical world...