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Prof. Sven Beckert, Thursday October 29th...
...Scandinavians for $2.6 billion in 2005 - a lofty sum that made the heads of many in Silicon Valley spin. Can the founders now really hope to block the resale of Skype by pulling the technology on which it runs? "People are puzzled about how this happened," says analyst Stephan Beckert with Washington-based TeleGeography Research. "One thing I can say: You don't want to mess with Zennstrom...
...primary purpose hasn't changed - to secure the population - and will remain that way through the first of January into next year," the brigade's deputy commander, Lieut. Colonel Christopher Beckert, explained a few days before New Year's Eve. "We see the primary threat right now to the Iraqi population as al-Qaeda and also special group criminals. Our plan is to continue to defeat them with our Iraqi counterparts...
...Harvard boasts numerous courses devoted to studying the world’s histories, and when it examines its own individual history, it is equally valuable as an academic effort, even if that story is a troubled one. A four-person research seminar taught this fall by history professor Sven Beckert revealed the unfortunate connections between slavery and prominent individuals in Harvard’s legacy. This investigation is a worthy endeavor to increase the awareness of the economic and personal ties to slavery at Harvard. Moreover, it is to the credit of professors and their students that historical surveys...
...students stop to consider who occupied Old Yard, but an examination of Harvard’s past reveals a history of entanglements with slavery—a history that is just now coming to light because of a four-person research seminar taught this fall by History professor Sven Beckert...