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...Angeles Times, will be a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) during the spring semester. The Shorenstein fellowship program appoints up to six distinguished journalists, scholars, and policy makers each semester to explore a topic concerning the relationship between the mass media and politics. Fellows must produce a final paper and are encouraged to attend seminars at the center and give public lectures. Carroll offers unparalleled expertise in the newspaper business, according to Alex S. Jones, the Shorenstein Center’s director...
...resolution is part of a continuing response to a probe into the circumstances surrounding his death led by prosecutor Detlev Mehlis, whose report on the topic was released...
...should be ashamed of ourselves for taking so much interest in their affairs in this way. No fewer than four articles (including a staff editorial, not to mention two e-mail transcripts) were published surrounding the incident—more in one day than about any other single topic this school year. If there needs to be a discussion on campus about the role that single-gender unofficial organizations play in our social scene, let’s have it, but let’s have it openly, rather than by making what amounts to a series of poorly concealed...
...chance alone, and so are likely candidates to be the products of recent natural selection. Sabeti and her colleagues are currently working on a paper to reassess many previous claims about recent natural selection using the new HapMap data. “Natural selection is always a controversial topic,” she said, “so it’s very important that we take stock carefully.” The HapMap was born four years ago when Mark J. Daly, now an assistant professor in the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital?...
Abhinand Lath recalls being particularly moved by a poem by an 11th century Japanese woman who described strolling through a young bamboo forest so delicate that her movements caused the stalks and their shadows to change colors. Bamboo happened to be the topic of Lath's master's thesis in architecture at the University of Michigan. Yet the poem, and the idea of colors subtly changing through variances in movement and light, stuck with...