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...Wandering dazed and footsore through those hot dry halls is to be accosted by advertising, mugged by marketing and interred by informercials. "Wave your hands in the air!" yelled one painfully hip stall barker in beret and shades. "Who gives you world-class storage solutions?" (Just to irk the company responsible, I won't provide the answer). Another stall, decked out in palm trees, featured an Indiana Jones-style adventurer with fake chest muscles hacking through fake undergrowth while screaming into a microphone: "It's a jungle in today's tech world!" Even the keynotes have lost all philosophical pretensions...
...Harvard and MIT are here to stay and are part of our community, but they have a responsibility towards the neighborhood,” Murphy said. “One of their main attractions, apart from being world-class universities, is that they are located in a vibrant city with a good neighborhood...
These women are charged with making Radcliffe a world-class producer of research in the hard and social sciences. Newman will split her time between Radcliffe and the Kennedy School of Government, where she is currently the Wiener Professor of Urban Studies...
...professor still has to be a world-class thinker, but if they are not at least a B-quality teacher they don’t make the long list, let alone the short list,” he says...
Since his early interviews with the presidential search committee, Summers has consistently pointed to the need for a world-class University to have a world-class College. We appreciate his attention to the size of the Faculty and the tenure rates of junior faculty, and we look forward to additional measures to improve the undergraduate experience. Yet in his first months in office, Summers has been hesitant to take significant steps or to announce long-range plans; we hope that this official installation will mark the beginning of the changes that his term will bring...