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...innovator. The “Rubin Causal Model” gives people who were confused about how to think about effects a framework in which to consider them. Elizabeth Stuart, a graduate student under Rubin and a Teaching Fellow for his Quantative Reasoning 33 core, “Causal Inference,” attests to the flexibility of Rubin’s work. “Now [Rubin’s Model] is the standard for thinking about causal effects in economics...
Steven Pinker is in your head. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology and teacher of core du jour Science B-62, “The Human Mind,” Pinker appeals to people who aren’t budding neurosurgeons. Pinker’s PhD student and Human Mind Teaching Fellow Ned Sahin describes the class as aimed at students “who maybe don’t care about past tense verbs or the synapse between two neurons, who maybe don’t care about one facet of psychology, but who do want a user?...
...petitioned for an alternative course, his own department initially denied him. But the Economics department did allow for one change in Ec 10’s lecture line-up last year, and the added material was arguably as subversive as Marglin’s new core...
...attacks such as the Madrid bombings. Instead, bin Laden and his deputies set broad objectives in their "State of the Union" type addresses periodically released to Arab broadcast media, and those objectives can be pursued by discrete terror cells who may never have direct contact with al-Qaeda's core leadership...
...What does it mean to be an educated man or woman?” Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez asked at a Nov. 2002 panel on the Core curriculum. And under the all-encompassing banner of the curricular review, Harvard is also asking questions regarding the kind of calendar best suited for creating educated men and women. The steering committee on the curricular review has proposed the creation of a “January term,” or “J-term,” in which students take only one class...