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...Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Theda Skocpol, however, dismissed the concerns of NAS, saying “there will be no artificial quotas and no barriers” at Harvard. “Under President Faust, excellence in teaching and research will the be watchword,” she wrote in an e-mail. Balch said that he believed Faust was chosen in part as a product of the post-Lawrence H. Summers environment. The former Harvard president, who was forced to resign from his post last February, sparked an outcry in 2005 when he proposed...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Academic Group Blasts Faust | 2/16/2007 | See Source »

...environment. For 30-odd years, young learners have been fed into the Core Curriculum’s crucible of randomness. Though for the Faculty, this is real, damn it, and not some merely contrived artifice. And now, by way of these professors’ new Curricular Review, comes the watchword “internationalization.” (The professoriate might as well giddily exclaim, “Radicalize the Revolution...

Author: By Travis R. Kavulla | Title: Internationalism Everywhere | 1/8/2007 | See Source »

...Keep moving!” as they passed through the turnstiles all the way to the insistence that all drinks were disposed of before entrance. Inside, officials clutched detailed plans of the area to make sure student groups stayed within their assigned square footage. Micro-management was the watchword as both the Boston Police Department and the Harvard University Police Department kept a suspicious eye on student fun levels...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: All Work, No Play | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

While inclusion is the watchword for today's disabled Americans, social isolation remains a painful problem. "Once they leave high school, they can fall off the earth because of a lack of services," says Dennis McGuire, director of psychosocial services at the Adult Down Syndrome Center at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, Ill. "If they're stuck at home, they can end up feeling very much alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Very Special Wedding | 7/16/2006 | See Source »

French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has always espoused a "great man" approach to history and his job: his hero is Napoleon, and his watchword during a turbulent year in office has been voluntarisme, or willpower. "Villepin always wants to go it alone, with great enthusiasm and resolve," says Axel Poniatowski, a deputy of Villepin's own ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump), "but he runs right into walls." Poniatowski was among the majority of ump deputies who refused to back Villepin's plan last week to facilitate the merger of Franco-Belgian utility Suez with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Testy Under Pressure | 6/25/2006 | See Source »

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