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Tentatively titled Empire of The Mind: Lawrence Summers and the Battle For Harvard, the book is being written by John F. Kennedy Jr. biographer Richard Blow and is expected for spring...
...It’s a look at the changes that Larry is making here and his vision for the future of Harvard, and the influence that those things may have on higher education in general,” Blow said...
...militants have not gone down easily. In those sweeps, 11 Saudi security officials have died. The four members of an al-Qaeda unit, cornered in a house in the al-Jouf region, chose to bind themselves together and blow themselves up with hand grenades rather than get caught. In a number of raids, suspects managed to get away: at least two broke out of a safe house under surveillance, 10 escaped from another hideaway when police approached, and seven slipped through a police cordon during a five-hour gun battle in Riyadh. One arrest suggested al-Qaeda may have penetrated...
...Hubris meets poetic justice when Jessica's mark turns out to be a yakuza kingpin, and the arrivistes find that they?not the locals?are the na?fs. The story clips along as the kidnappers scramble to salvage their plan, but the breathless blow-by-blow narration leaves little room for the main characters to evolve beyond textbook-case stupid Americans. By the time the mobsters close in, we're rooting for a speedy end to the fiasco. In that, at least, the novel delivers...
Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross wrote in an e-mail that he does not believe the changes represent much of a blow to athletic facilities in the “QRAC”— the Quadrangle Recreational Activities Center. He said he expects the QRAC to only lose one basketball court...