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hrsaca.html, is to "involve students and alumni in the development of a set of principles and recommendations that we will present to the Harvard University community by the fall...
...York City police officers who shot and killed Amadou Diallo were cleared of any wrongdoing. They were found not guilty of murder, or even of using excessive force in shooting an unarmed man 41 times. At a meeting held last night in Sever, there weren't even enough people present to represent each bullet shot...
...father waits in the wings, obsessed with his son's crusade, dreaming of restoration; the other lies buried in Arlington National Cemetery. But both men are eternally present in this race. In the Bush and McCain clans, expectations are stamped in the genetic code, assumed at birth, resented in adolescence like hair that won't lie flat or legs too short for basketball. Each generation seemed to raise the stakes ever higher. McCain, whose family traces its martial roots back to Charlemagne, entered the Navy as the son and grandson of four-star admirals. Bush, whose family is distantly connected...
Fast-forward to the present. Lloyd's has indeed been rocked by ruinous asbestos claims, and managed to survive only with the help of a pliant Parliament. But a stone-broke Evans has lost her home. Thousands of Names have been wiped out financially. Some committed suicide. Even such notables as brokerage founders Charles Schwab and Dan Lufkin have been exposed to the loss of millions in what has been called the biggest and baldest swindle in history, perpetrated behind the clubby doors of the world's most respected insurance organization...
Gladwell says his book is intended partly as antidote to the current and somewhat fatalistic intellectual climate, in which immutable genes are supposed to explain the present and set the future in concrete. "Sometimes we talk as if there were no such thing as culture," he says. "Culture has a real effect on how we act and what we believe." So, there's the 1984 study that found that ABC News anchor Peter Jennings was more likely to smile on camera when talking about Ronald Reagan than Walter Mondale, and that in the same year the people who watched...