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...hold senior faculty positions in the sciences. His intentions were genuine, and his approach—to address a pressing issue with proactive analysis and creative solutions rather than idle talk and reliance on old thinking—was ideal, if poorly executed in this isolated case.His regrettable and oft-publicized remark aside, Summers applied the same approach of intellectual provocation throughout his stewardship of the University, and with great success. Under his leadership, Harvard’s endowment continued to flourish, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences commenced a full review of the obsolete Core Curriculum, and the revolutionary...
...study's results suggest that using statins to treat the symptoms of inflammation, an oft-overlooked condition, may nearly halve people's risk of future heart attack, stroke and heart-related death...
...oft-married Zsa Zsa Gabor once said that you never really know a man until you've divorced him. I disagree. A far more pleasant (and less litigious) way to figure out whether or not you and your beliked are compatible is to hit the road...
...Aides say that Obama in these final days is content in the knowledge that he has done everything he could to win this race, given his all - or, to use an oft-quote sports analogy, left everything on the field. If he loses, they say, his worry won't be about what he could have done differently but about the generation of young voters that he has inspired and the opportunity the country may have lost in keeping them engaged...
...rest of the band. When viewed as a companion piece to “Bittersweet Symphony,” the nuances of the video are made more apparent. Rather than indifferently shoving past people on the sidewalk, as he does in “Symphony,” the oft-brooding Ashcroft is more pensive, intimate, and mournful as he meanders around the woods. The place he would “rather be” is serene and undisturbed, allowing him to leave behind the “world full of confusion.” Yet there is an underlying...