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Last month, Harvard’s Board of Overseers confirmed Drew Gilpin Faust as the University’s 28th president. A civil war historian who has led the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since 2001, Faust, for some, has come to represent the antithesis of former President Lawrence H. Summers. Where Summers was viewed as abrasive and controversial, Faust has built a reputation for her powers of consensus-building, which might prove useful given the tempestuous relations between the Faculty and former president...
...spilled coffee, no half-eaten pizza slices, no one cursing into a phone. The staff are unfailingly polite, and they don't run-they walk. As befits Hong Kong's profile as a financial town above all else, Tsang's election office is in a commercial tower, on the 28th floor. (Hong Kong people consider 28 to be an advantageous number because, in Cantonese, it sounds like "easy to prosper.") In case that isn't powerful enough joss, a large Chinese character written on gold paper stands above the reception counter; it's the word "luck...
...call for harsher punishment of piracy—of the digital kind—was leveled against universities last Friday by the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet and Intellectual Property. Rep. Howard L. Berman, a Democrat who represents California’s 28th district, encompassing Hollywood and nearby areas rich in entertainment-based industries, said that “current law isn’t giving universities enough incentives to stop piracy,” according to a statement released by the congressman’s office. But network administrators at Harvard said this week...
Papadakis is no stranger to the high level of competition. She competed in the NCAA Championships last year, placing 28th in the one-meter and 35th in the three-meter...
...also predicted that Drew G. Faust’s appointment as the 28th president will have a positive effect on future giving...