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Close to 50 undergraduates put aside their textbooks yesterday for a forum on the Curricular Review where they critiqued Harvard’s advising system and voiced strong support for revamping the Core curriculum and reducing concentration requirements...
...It’s time to have an open community forum on this,” Strauss said...
...Lopez-de-Silanes is the recipient of numerous awards, including Harvard’s Wells Prize in 1995 for the best dissertation in economics. In 2002 he was named one of the 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow 2003 by the World Economic Forum...
...this is my 15 minutes of fame, I hope it saves a life," says Thomas "Jerry" Wilson, the National Guard specialist who unnerved Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in a public forum by asking why soldiers have to scrounge for scrap metal to arm their vehicles before heading into Iraq. Wilson, 31, who joined the National Guard a few days after Sept. 11, has kept a low profile since the Dec. 8 town-hall meeting in Kuwait, even as his question--and a reporter's later account of his role in preparing it--became a hot topic. But in an interview...
...damage to Secretary Rumsfeld." After the meeting, Wilson told Rumsfeld he did not intend to put him "on the spot" or show disrespect, and the two shook hands. While most soldiers were "overwhelmingly positive" afterward, one officer suggested Wilson should have asked the question in a more "proper forum." Says Wilson: "My response was, 'What would the proper forum be?' If it costs me my career to save another soldier, I'll give it." --By Anne Berryman