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...many--including Carnesale-- consider Harvard's provostship weak compared to other schools'. At most universities, the provost is the chief academic and operating officer--at Yale, for example, deans of all schools report to the provost...
Part of the reason Mass. Hall has always been weak compared to Harvard's independent divisions is that it had no money of its own. Included in the capital campaign was a $100,000 in discretionary funds for the president's office that would help alleviate the problem. But Rudenstine did not ask for money for his own office and until the last days of the campaign when other administrators took over, it lagged behind other areas dramatically...
...third year, this estrogenic round table and its five outspoken hosts have made the morning safe for spicy, topical dialogue and the occasional lap dance. In a traditionally abysmal time slot for ABC, the show has seen its ratings rise 50% from a weak start; it's been imitated by other talk shows; and it scored 12 nominations, the most of any talk show, for this week's daytime Emmys (where host-producer-founder Barbara Walters will receive a lifetime achievement award...
...problems, because if they are not taken care of, terrible consequences will spill across the map far from China. Perversely, the gap in material wealth and military technology separating China from the West is actually a source of leverage for Beijing. In the West the gap makes China look weak. But the gap actually makes China strong. China has the advantage--the underdog's advantage--that comes from knowing that shutting the country out, trying to hold it down, provokes the resentments the West wants to avoid: resentments that might make Chinese markets hostile to U.S. exporters. When...
...cynicism gives way to empathy, and our skepticism to sorrow. The special place of Nachtwey's photography is the realm beyond the contrived, where even jaded media-hounds cannot escape the pathos. The starvation in the Sudan and in Somalia is impossible to stage, and the subjects are too weak to strike a pose. We see the stick-men dying in the streets and we cannot look away...