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Harvard professors are rubbing virtual shoulders with the world’s premier minds on a Web site launched by two alums. The site, BigThink.com, bills itself as “a YouTube for ideas” and aims to bring the technology of video-sharing to the service of intellectual discourse. It was funded in part by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. “The goal is really to recreate the vibrant space of a university or a think tank—where ideas get exchanged all the time—online, where it?...
...Somewhere in southern Spain, however, a nagging worry caught up with me. Americans—particularly young Americans—have democratic freedoms but don’t use them. According to the web site IDEA (the Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance), in the 26 national elections since 1945, the average voter turnout rate for citizens age 18 to 24 has been only 48.3 percent. This is well below France (67.3 percent), Spain (77 percent), and even Morocco (57.6 percent). (China hasn’t had comparable elections.) Americans in this age group, aptly dubbed “Generation...
...business manager, Pak maintained the HCS Web site and led a seminar for students in Computer Science 50, “Introduction to Computer Science I” students about using Linux, according to HCS President Grant W. Dasher...
...with these hard truths in mind, which Democrat running for president is best suited to navigate the complex web of political ideology, special interests, and lobbies that will dominate American politics for the foreseeable future? Who will actually get something done? Hillary Clinton, who has the most preparation, experience, and knowledge ever combined in one Presidential candidate, and who also happens to be a woman, is clearly the candidate best suited at this particular moment in our history...
...short duration of the master’s program could explain why the trial is not more widely discussed. The master’s program takes two years to complete, enrolling about ten students per year for an interdisciplinary, individualized course of study, according to the Davis Center Web site...