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...editors: Re: New Aid Plan Targets More Affluent Families, news, Dec. 11. As a current student at the Law School and a graduate of the College, I view Harvard as a second home and I am proud to be an alumnus. I applauded Harvard’s efforts under former President Lawrence H. Summers to enable all students to attend Harvard by waiving fees for families making $40,000 to $60,000 a year. However, I am deeply dismayed by Harvard’s gleeful announcement today that it is increasing its financial aid for families making...
...Watching this rough sketch of a better movie, I thought of an ideal director for The Golden Compass: Terry Gilliam, the wildly imaginative Monty Python alumnus who's equally at home in fractured fairy tales (Jabberwocky, The Brothers Grimm) and the voluptuous visualizing of otherworldly dictatorships (Brazil). But Gilliam is a handful for studio heads; he has a high ratio of aborted projects. To hire him would have taken balls on New Line's part, and quite possibly an financial death wish...
...move particularly challenged the magazine’s relationship to Harvard—despite the fact that a University alumnus was the driving force behind it. David Bradley, the new owner of “The Atlantic” and a graduate of the Business School, says he decided to move the magazine in an effort to reduce costs. He also owns the Washington-based National Journal Group...
...quest for the nation’s highest office, former Massachusetts governor and Harvard alumnus Mitt Romney will be consulting a prominent Harvard Business School (HBS) professor whose theories on strategy and competition are considered management dogma by thousands of business executives across the country...
...head is spinning,” he said. The Mossavar-Rahmani Center carries its name as a result of a $15 million gift from a prominent business couple—Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani, who is Managing Director of Goldman-Sachs, and her husband Bijan, a KSG alumnus who heads Mondoil Corporation, an international petroleum firm. The Mossavar-Rahmani Center runs a wide range of programs, including initiatives on corporate social policy, regulatory policy, and environmental economics. —Staff writer David K. Hausman can be reached at dhausman@fas.harvard.edu...