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...them anything but accessible and eager to share their passion for a very important field. By forcing me to organize my thoughts as I synthesized material, both of these teachers made me a better writer; by making me consider the interrelation of historical events, both made me a better thinker. At many universities, these are considered sufficient goals for the course of an entire education, but Harvard asks for more. Thanks to committed teachers like Mr. Brinkley and Mr. Lee, it is able to expect that students can and will meet these expectations...
...only Harvard coach ever to lead his team toan outright Ivy crown (in 1975), Joe Restic becameHarvard football's chief thinker...
...District Court Judge Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. '27, a nationally acclaimed legal thinker and longtime Harvard affiliate, died in Boston Wednesday...
Harriman was never a brilliant strategic thinker, but he could be shrewd. Often plodding yet at times strikingly bold, detached yet intense, he would seem half asleep at meetings, until someone uttered a fatuous remark. Then he would snap the offender's head off. His nickname in the Kennedy Administration was "the Crocodile...
...panoplies of statistics and computer printouts, as it is for bureaucrats of Third World countries where information may be limited and technical resources few. "It used to seem to me that the drift of all Western countries was toward something like socialism," says Economist Robert Heilbroner, a leading socialist thinker. "But now, when I reflect on what is happening in the / 1980s, it is not so clear. There is a sense of a return to the market, because the task of planning in a modern economy is so complex...