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...always know what their decisions will mean and “eventually all nine Justices will leave the Court. We just don’t know when or in what order.” Greenhouse described her job as “one of the best jobs in the world?? and, citing recent rulings about the constitutionality of racially conscious decisions in public schools, said that “the Court never loses its capacity to surprise.” Jeffrey E. Jamison, a class marshal, said Greenhouse provided “both insight and wisdom...
...hope that more than anything else, you leave here with a reverence for, and personal commitment to, the power of human thought and the positive contribution reason can make,” he said. As a caveat, he said that human thought has also resulted in much of the world??s misery, and that we should not be uncritical of ideas. Summers warned that the concept of reason is threatened today by “faith-based terror.” As an example of reason in danger, Summers said that the theory of evolution is being challenged...
...Roberts was managing editor, said last summer. “He was just the type of person you want in a high-stress job where you have to spend time together.”After graduating from the Law School, Roberts rose rapidly to the top of the legal world??he is now the youngest chief justice since the early 19th century. Now, as the end of his first term on the bench draws near, Roberts has already put his mark on the Supreme Court—and his alma mater.—Sraff writer Adam...
...question we ask ourselves often. To be sure, once in a while we suspect that we are doing something right. We do have a stunning number of superlative applicants to the College, each year more qualified than the last. We do recruit to the Faculty so many of the world??s most notable scholars, who come here in unmatched numbers. Harvard’s prestige beyond Cambridge seems to grow, even in years when we contest, vocally and publicly, with each other about our own workings. Yet the broad attitude of students and faculty often seems...
...trillion-dollar conclusion, Bilmes says, is “a reflection of the fact that worldwide a lot of people had a feeling that this [war] was costing a great deal more than had been totaled up.” As well as fielding questions from journalists around the world??including a special interview with an Italian TV journalist Bilmes called the “Oprah of Italy”—Bilmes has also met with politicians interested in her conclusion. She briefed two potential Democratic presidential candidates—John Edwards and Mark Warner?...