Word: centralization
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...second-in-command in Massachusetts Hall, Harvey V. Fineberg '67 is something of a "shadow president," serving as Rudenstine's top adviser and overseeing a potpourri of projects from information technology to the central administration's finances. The provost is also responsible for fostering academic collaboration among Harvard's nine faculties--a task that is easier said than done...
Only in America could a boy born in a modest farmhouse in central Illinois grow up to be a Senate candidate with no previous political experience. Well, make that only in America--by way of Wall Street and a $35 million fortune to spend...
...South Korea is one of Asia's long-term economic success stories, and North Korea represents opportunities for its economic expansion into a global powerhouse. A majority of its electorate clearly favors moves toward reunification, which has always been a central theme of President Kim Dae Jung's political platform, and skeptics will have been quieted by the overwhelming enthusiasm the summit generated among South Koreans. But once the dewy afterglow has subsided, years of tough negotiations lie ahead, and Seoul will be in no hurry to relinquish U.S. protection in the interim. And Seoul has it reasons in taking...
Over last weekend, after a Puerto Rican Day parade, roving gangs of young men ran wild in New York's Central Park, molesting and sexually assaulting dozens of women. I have had long discussions with friends about the gangs' motives. Lust? Hatred of women? Warrior machismo? Drunkenness? A dynamic form of mob stupidity? To parse the motives of the gangs assumes that they were acting on anything as coherent as Motive. Who cares? What matters is not why they did it, but that they did it. How can such a basic foundation of law be so blithely and witlessly subverted...
Five short days ago, both men were pooh-poohing the idea that police stood idly by as perhaps as many as 37 women were sexually assaulted in Central Park during the drunken, hot aftermath of the June 10 Puerto Rican Day parade. But after five days of unwelcome, outraged national media attention, both men had cast aside their cavalier attitudes and were miraculously transformed into the urban equivalent of white knights, galloping in (albeit a few days late) to save their city and its women from bands of marauding molesters...