Word: alum
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Fifteen Minutes: What do you think of Hank Paulson’s nomination to be Treasury secretary? University President Lawrence H. Summers: He’s an alum of our business school. He’s a first rate guy with very broad experience who may well need it, given the large challenges our economy and financial system face...
...TABLE TALKThe members of the search committee show no sign of taking the summer off.At the Harvard Club of New York last month, two members of the committee—Houghton and outgoing Vassar College President Frances D. Fergusson, an overseer—worked a room of alums to gather input for the search. Houghton and Fergusson discussed the search process and then opened the floor to questions from the 15 to 20 gathered alumni before splitting up into two tables for dinner.“They showed no bias or leaning one way or the other...
...must decide whether you should shoot it in a hoop, bowl it down a lane, hit it with a club, bounce it, squeeze it, or simply plant and nourish it. That is, you must decide how you will conduct yourself in the world as a Harvard alum.As a Harvard alum, there are several ways for you to get involved. You can take the “passive aggressive approach” by sitting and complaining about what Harvard owes you because you paid more than $40,000 each year to attend this remarkable institution. Harvard obviously needed you. You didn?...
...Jackal. He hates confrontation, and he's not arrogant enough to have ever told a director he thought he was being misused, but he did find that movies were a lot less fun than theater or Tenacious D, the Spinal Tap-ish band he created with fellow Actors' Gang alum Kyle Gass. "It wasn't about control," says Black. "It was about the co-lla-bo. There's great directors who treat actors like cattle, but I hated it, and I knew if I ever had a choice, I didn't want to work with those guys. Who said that...
Gubernatorial candidate Deval L. Patrick ’78 called in one of his biggest guns last Thursday night when he played host to fellow Harvard Law alum Barack H. Obama, a Democratic senator from Illinois...