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...Once described as having 20 IQ points on everyone else in Washington, Zoellick is widely regarded as brilliant, extremely hard-working, frequently difficult to work with and keenly interested in politics. He started in the Reagan era as a prot?g? of Jim Baker's at the Treasury Department and followed Baker to the State Department during the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush. During those four years, Zoellick was a behind-the-scenes architect for the reunification of Germany, the expansion of NATO and many of the complex negotiations that attended the end of the Cold...
...search for Paul D. Wolfowitz’s successor as president of the World Bank, Harvard graduates are taking center stage. At least four people with Harvard ties—Robert B. Zoellick, R. Glenn Hubbard, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ’77, and Baker Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein ’61—have garnered media speculation as candidates for the post, and Secretary of the Treasury Henry M. Paulson Jr., a graduate of the Business School, is heading up the search process. Wolfowitz announced he would resign earlier this month after a protracted scandal...
...which are, for the critic, entirely guilt-free. Yes, sometimes it's a bummer - an Irish romance (Once) which looks as if the cameraman and the sound guy were both DUI, or the entire Wilson family (Luke, Owen and Andrew) seeking and finding near-total witlessness in The Wendell Baker Story. But still, there's something to be said for the infinite variety of the movies...
...professors.In addition to his university professor’s pay, Summers will receive salary supplements from Harvard, although the total value of all these supplements will be less than his fiscal year 2006 pay.According to the tax returns, Harvard’s highest-paid faculty member last year was Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration F. Warren McFarlan ’59, who earned $300,000 in salary—along with a $347,500 retirement-package payment, $14,000 for executive education teaching, and $45,040 in benefits. McFarlan was traveling in Taiwan yesterday and could not be reached...
...know the West Coast teams are going to be strong,” Baker agreed. “But if this is any indication, this team can win, and we know that we’ve got what it takes to compete with them...