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...never been stronger. Will admirable works of scholarly reporting also keep coming out? I'm even more confident answering this question affirmatively. One such work, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is being published in February, and it's the best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting his quixotic efforts to follow the Great Wall by car, depending on flawed maps that sometimes left large sections blank (for political reasons) and often seemed hopelessly...
...haven't been to the places Hessler describes in Country Driving or met the people whose stories he tells with his characteristic blend of empathy, insight and self-deprecating humor. Yet I never doubt for a second that he's writing about the richly hued and socially variegated country that I know, as opposed to one of the imaginary lands conjured up in Big China Books...
...DAMNED LIES, AND STATISTICSBut despite widespread concern among students over recent percentages of graduates going to the private sector, administrators say the statistics have been blown out of proportion.“I don’t believe there is a cause for concern,” says Sandy Hessler, director of the Office of Career Advancement. She says that of the 35 percent of 2008 graduates who entered the private sector, about a third entered a public-private partnership, which would suggest that closer to three-fourths of students actually entered public service careers.Even last year?...
Franklin H. Epstein, professor at Harvard Medical School and physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will be remembered as a researcher, confidant, mentor, and distinctly, as a singer. “He was a perfect tenor, a beautiful voice,” said Katherine Hessler, a former student and researcher in Epstein’s lab. Each year on July 14, Epstein would serenade his research lab with songs from the French Revolution. “He was always whistling, humming, or singing. He was a very musical guy.” Epstein passed away last Wednesday...
...impression I got was that there wasn’t that much interest among the students that I knew in international careers,” Howard says, adding that he believes recruitment efforts are more focused on finding minorities outside of the Northeast to improve diversity. Sandy Hessler, however, director of professional development at KSG, attributes the waning involvement in the public sector not to KSG recruiting techniques, but to the government’s lack of growth in the past 10 to 15 years. “A lot of the private sector jobs have job responsibilities that used...