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...hard to avoid the conclusion that some of these men - and they are almost all men - belong in jail. But most were too shrewd to cross legal lines; they just danced along them, lingering in the loopholes, playing us for suckers. Now the damage is done, and it's easy enough for them to hide in the complexity of a system few of us understand - a system created by collective irresponsibility. But recklessness is a form of intent, and when the damage is measured in families disfigured by a sudden fear of the future, and parents haunted by the debts...
English Professor Louis Menand recalled feeling thrilled when the Harvard Faculty finally approved the new curriculum at the last Faculty meeting of the 2006-2007 academic year. Menand, who helped author the Report of the Task Force on General Education, said that almost the entire room—168 professors, to be exact—raised their hands as the Secretary of the Faculty counted the votes. At that meeting, the Faculty moved to eliminate the nearly 30-year-old Core program and implement the new Gen Ed curriculum over a period of two years...
...After almost 25 years, then-Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky called for a reevaluation of the current system. After much debate, the Faculty moved to eliminate the first Gen Ed program and establish the Core...
...students see an opportunity here, much to their credit, to re–double their efforts–to start companies or join startups where just a year ago they would primarily have joined multinationals firms almost by default,” he said...
...instances of tenured professors leaving the Law School in recent years—the hiring frenzy in the past five years has seen Harvard poach more than a few distinguished legal scholars from rival institutions, including NYU. But NYU has also embarked upon an ambitious faculty recruitment campaign, hiring almost 20 full professors away from other law schools since 2004. Several professors at the Law School said that Goodman chose to relocate largely because of his and his family’s preference to live in New York, rather than the Boston area. In addition to boasting a roster...