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...DIED. Joseph Kauffman, 84, an architect of the Peace Corps, which was launched by President Kennedy in 1961; in Madison, Wisconsin. As the first director of training for the volunteer foreign-aid force, he designed the boot camp-like regimen carried out for recruits at 70 college campuses across the U.S. Among its features: 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m. workdays six days a week, and instruction in foreign languages, technical job skills and medical issues...
...code of honor. Rumsfeld was an ancient rival of Bush the Elder who became Secretary of Defense, Woodward implies, because of a mild Oedipal spasm: the Younger wanted to prove the Elder was wrong about the guy. How to explain the current President's continuing, suicidal loyalty to the architect of the Iraq debacle, even after Laura Bush and then chief of staff Andrew Card lobbied Bush to replace Rumsfeld in 2004? It's a perfect Freudian boggle: if he dumps Rumsfeld, isn't George W. Bush tacitly admitting that his dad was right about a lot of other things...
...Harvard Law faculty unanimously approved sweeping revisions to the school’s first-year curriculum in a closed-door meeting yesterday afternoon, professors confirmed last night. The vote marked the culmination of two years of work by Dean Elena Kagan and the review’s chief architect, Smith Professor of Law Martha L. Minow, as well as several other professors and administrators...
...LVMH boss Bernard Arnault kicked off Paris fashion week with a very elaborate press conference Monday morning to announce a $127 million Louis Vuitton foundation to be built in a popular children's park-Le Jardin d'Acclimatation-in the Bois Du Boulogne. None other than mega-star architect Frank Gehry has been tapped to design the place...
...Harvard’s flagship library—is being sold at auction by its current owner and is expected to fetch an eight-figure sum that may approach $25 million. Both the beach front villa and Widener Library were completed in 1915 and were designed by architect Horace Trumbauer. The estate, dubbed Miramar—meaning “look to the sea”—had gone through numerous provenances before it was sold to real estate mogul Andrew Panteleakis in 1971 for $118,000. Panteleakis put the estate on the market two years...