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...encourage our sons and daughters to achieve success through whatever means necessary, whether on the baseball field or in the library. Professional athletes and Harvard students both earn respect for their “enhanced performance,” and the lengths to which they have gone to attain it. The meritocracy doles out lucrative compensation accordingly...
...earnings spectrum—when paying for necessities. So MBAs and others who egoistically seek to maximize income as a path to happiness are likely taking the wrong approach. Unethical or immoral behavior as a means to increase income, therefore, is probably not the right way to attain overall happiness either...
...Barron, who is on leave from Harvard for a job in the Obama administration, also seems unlikely to leave D.C. for the Griswold office. One faculty member added that, given his youth, Barron will likely have another chance to attain the top job at the Law School...
America will remain the world’s sole superpower for some time. Nevertheless, the geopolitical landscape is gradually becoming a multipolar environment where China will be a key player. If Beijing tries to attain hegemony in Asia, deterring it will be more complex than simply augmenting our already-enormous defense budget. A promising grand strategy to constrain China’s growing clout might couple offshore balancing—building a partnership of other powers opposed to Chinese dominance—with an effort to counter China’s unique methods of espionage. And while there is nothing...
...influenced to go into the field by former editors like David Halberstam ’55 and Anthony Lewis ’48 who became Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. Former editors also inspired Nelson to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. After receiving the scholarship, Nelson went on to attain an M. Phil in politics from Oxford. He began his career after graduate school as an instructor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Washington D.C. to report on Congressional and foreign affairs for the Washington Post...