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...What differentiates Hanks from the academic past masters is his conviction that the historical experience should be a very personal one. He harbors a pugnacious indignation against history as data gathering, preferring the work of popular historians like McCullough, Ambrose, Barbara Tuchman and Doris Kearns Goodwin. He wants viewers to identify with their ancestors, allowing them to ponder the prevalence of moral ambiguity, human willpower and plain dumb luck in shaping the past. And he wants to be transported back in time, with a Sousa band banging the drum loudly...
...insisted the destination was out of his regular range and would require further charges. The driver reportedly began yelling and refused to stop the cab. He finally stopped at the destination and the reporting party exited the cab without incident.May 5:2:07 p.m.: Officers were dispatched to Tuchman Hall D to take report of an assault. The reporting party said they got into an argument with an individual and that they were slapped on the wrist and struck in the face with a plastic cup.May 6:2:37 p.m.: Officers responded to a report of a verbal altercation between...
...permanent struggle over the meaning of justice, and the answering virtue of mercy is not much at home. The result has been a drama of mutual follies -- of fierce immobilities interlocked, shaken now and then by spasms of violence. In her book The March of Folly, Historian Barbara Tuchman argues that through the ages governments have shown a propensity to pursue policies contrary to their own interests. The first example of freely chosen disaster that she cites was Rehoboam's loss of the northern kingdom of Judea and its conquest by the Assyrians nearly 3,000 years ago. The story...
...been confirmed to be on the committee's short list include University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews ’67. —Aditi Banga, Stephanie S. Garlow, Samuel P. Jacobs, and Brittney L. Moraski contributed to the reporting of this story —Staff writer Javier C. Hernandez can be reached at jhernand@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Daniel J. T. Schuker...
...been confirmed to be on the committee's short list include University of California President Robert C. Dynes, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute President Shirley Ann Jackson, Cornell Provost Carolyn “Biddy” Martin, Amherst College President Anthony W. Marx, and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace President Jessica Tuchman Mathews...