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...politics and in academia, Chen—who took time off from writing his Ph.D. dissertation to join the Romney campaign—consistently makes deep impressions on friends, bosses, and colleagues...
...given the nation, by his estimation.THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN’But events in the ’60s happened from the ground up, and, Brokaw claimed, this part of the legacy has unfortunately not been preserved. Most important now, he argued, is finding a way to join the working class and the more affluent portions of society so that America can move forward without leaving any group of people behind. His hope is that the 2008 election will become a referendum on issues from the ’60s that remain unresolved. Brokaw recalled an anecdote about...
Noted anthropologist David Maybury-Lewis died at home last Sunday. The death of the former Henderson Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus came after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan, he emigrated to the United States in 1960 to join the Harvard faculty. He was 78. Maybury-Lewis was a leader in the field of anthropology specializing in the study of indigenous people in the Americas. His work concentrated in Brazil and was recognized in 1997 with the Grand Cross of the Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil’s highest academic award. He received...
...perfectly calibrated for a general election race - or for a Republican primary campaign that did not include a candidate by the name of Mike Huckabee. Romney has a strong case to make that the shared political and social concerns of religious conservatives across faith traditions require them to join forces in the public square. But that argument only holds so long as evangelical Republicans have no other candidates to choose from. The question isn't whether evangelical voters could support a Mormon, but whether they would back a Mormon over an equally appealing Catholic or Protestant. Like, say, Mike Huckabee...
Indeed, Secretary Gates, in Afghanistan this week, told reporters that the U.S. intelligence community has "more confidence than ever before" that Iran had a nuclear-weapons development program, one that Iran continues to deny it ever possessed. He urged the international community "to join the United States in bringing pressure to bear on the Iranian government" to keep its nuclear-weapons efforts dead. This, he said, will help "ensure that what apparently was a suspension in 2003 becomes a policy of the Iranian government and that they agree to the requirements of the international community in terms of their enrichment...