Word: transcender
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...drama,” reviewer Christopher Lehmann-Haupt wrote in The New York Times. In recent years, McClintick’s investigative interests have led him to scandals across the globe, from drug trafficking in Colombia to bank bribery in France.“You look for stories that transcend their setting,” McClintick says. “People want to read about real people who are in difficult situations that they can identify with....You can really see human nature at work, both the good, the bad, and the ugly.”And at Harvard...
...brightest undergraduates are not connecting with the University’s world-class faculty even though they excelled at precisely that in high school. Something is fundamentally wrong at the institutional level.Harvard has begun to address the problem. There are some bright spots: a few wonderful professors who transcend the divide and some nurturing concentrations that enjoy the luxury of small size. Even some large concentrations are better than others: history, which has about 80 concentrators a year, has met with some success through a system of faculty-led tutorial and conference courses; its student-faculty ratio of less than...
...model-makers. He keeps looking for something he can?t quite explain, but which might be described as slightly transgressive - a shock to conventional expectations - but he?s not impatient, never in mastermind mode. He chuckles, tells little anecdotes, draw on past experience, but also looks for ways to transcend what he?s done before...
...whole. He goes to great lengths to emphasize his respect for what the Democrats’ focus on multiculturalism has accomplished; he just thinks it’s time to move on. Tomasky’s Democratic Party would give Americans an outlet for their desire to transcend self interest (and group interest) and serve their community. But in constructing his grand vision, Tomasky, like the rest of the Framers, largely ignores policy. Although he admits that policies must play a role in shaping the Democratic Party, he argues that “voters don’t, and should...
...curricular review reports present no evidence that Harvard students are too narrowly educated or are becoming overspecialized. In fact, our broadly educated students welcome the challenge to compete at the highest level of their academic specialties. Those passionate ambitions seem strongest in our hungriest students, the ones eager to transcend the social and economic disadvantages to which they were born. They seek excellence because they seek success, and they welcome disciplined training that guides them toward those goals...