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...idiosyncrasies. Harvard is like a slightly amnesiac grandmother who still thinks she’s living in 1939, but has lots of fun and interesting stories to tell you when she visits—a little peculiar and distinct from the rest of the world, but much wisdom and experience to impart nonetheless. In the past year, I have taken a course by one of the world’s leading Yiddish scholar, met 19-year-olds who have written books or started their own companies, traveled to Yale to play a match of club tennis, taken the oldest public...
...meeting, professors raised concerns that their departments were taking a back seat to Allston planning and undergraduate services, while others questioned the wisdom of devoting so many resources to gender diversity rather than the Faculty as a whole...
...political fights. "What Sen. Clinton did when she first came in was what any person would do when they come into a new environment, that is listen and learn before you speak and you act," Obama told TIME in June. "I have tried to follow that same wisdom...
...Congressmen Harold Ford of Tennessee, Artur Davis of Alabama and Sanford Bishop of Georgia-who emphasize both the need for more money to fight poverty and the need to change the behavior patterns of the poor. "Our priority has to be with whatever works, as opposed to the conventional wisdom within our group or our party," Obama said last week, adding that liberal and conservative solutions to poverty are not mutually exclusive. "It's not either/or. It's both/and...
...mobile-TV traffic, just as it has been for mobile-phone video. German broadcasters and mobile operators are hoping to have the service in place for the 2006 World Cup, while Nokia plans to sell TV-compatible handsets in commercial volumes by the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The conventional wisdom is that people will "snack" on short snatches of mobile TV and save longer viewing periods for their larger TV sets. All that, however, must still await resolution of some fairly hefty issues. Music downloading didn't take off in a mass way until MP3 compression became an industry standard...