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...feel tempted to dismiss this combination of events as sheer coincidence, then consider the people running our country: They are the vestigial remains of the Cold War era. Secretary of State Colin Powell is a Cold War general; National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice is a Cold War scholar; and Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld are Cold War politicians. Their political decisions thus far, as well as their indifference to Moscow's reaction to them, are all too reminiscent of Cold War strategy...
...question becomes, are you willing to take a risk to appoint someone younger who is a world-class but maybe not world-known scholar?," MacFarquhar says. "I think Harvard tends to be risk-averse because we are claiming to hire the best...
Associate Professor of Linguistics Bert R. Vaux is quoted as saying that "being a good teacher carries with it the implication that you are not a good scholar." This is certainly not true in the Physics Department, and I do not think it is true in most departments. The same clarity of thought and expression that makes a good teacher also contributes to being a good researcher and scholar. The late Richard Feynman was one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century. Anyone who has seen the film of his lecture explaining the essence of quantum mechanics (which...
...felt it necessary to state precisely the extent of the labor I had put into this job, and to emphasize that as a consultant I was powerless to exercise any control over the use that was made of my advice," she says. "That is a foreign feeling to a scholar...
...made quite a discovery in inviting Stauffer, one of the most decorated players in Ivy history. She is Harvard's third all-time leading scorer with 37 goals and 36 assists. She was a two-time Ivy Player of the Year, a three-time All-American and NSCAA National Scholar Athlete of the Year...