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While each is unsavory in his own way, Summers and Kissinger are both gentlemen and scholars in the Harvard tradition, combining an academic background with Washington back-door experience at the highest levels. So it is with Marty Feldstein and the Bush tax plans, and with countless other professors and affiliates. This revolving-door connection brings prestige to Washington, while at Harvard it carries a certain measure of authenticity and power. Both establishments feed off the other’s legitimizing influence and redeem each other’s foibles by providing a home for its denizens...
...twice in the original Latin, but it was rereading the poem in Fitzgerald’s course on narrative poetry that “opened up its astonishing verbal beauty and human resonance” to Gioia, who attributes his love for the poem to his Italian and Mexican background...
This cultural background, Gioia says, informs his sense of personal identity—a sense that his time at Harvard helped to cement...
...Board—currently responsible for deciding cases of sexual assault—is mainly comprised of senior tutors and assistant deans of the College who have no training, education or background in either sexual assault or specialized methods for investigating it. Over the years, numerous calls have been made to train the members of the board about sexual assault, but the refrain that the board’s members are “too busy” has been constant. Today’s call by CASAH’s to train Ad Board members in peer-to-peer...
...only way to understand modern Iran is through the sort of prism of theological debate,” he said. “We found almost universally that educated young people want to hold on to their Islamic background. They want some sort of Islamic system, if not this Islamic system...