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...Summers “was not a perfect president” of Harvard but excoriates the hundreds of University of California (UC) faculty who objected to his planned talk to the UC Board of Regents as representing “the worst of academia.” Chair Richard Blum invited Summers to address a private dinner for the Regents, and then retracted the invitation after faculty objected...
...Instead, Blum invited Summers to address the Regents in private, without the opportunity for any meaningful public scrutiny or debate. The plan was apparently to honor Summers as an “expert” on higher education by giving him privileged access to the governing body of one of the world’s premier public educational institutions...
...science and engineering fields. They also cited Summers’ dispute with former African American studies professor Cornel R. West ’74. West, who is black, left for Princeton after Summers reportedly asked him to focus more on traditional scholarship rather than producing rap CDs. Richard C. Blum, chairman of the University of California board of regents, spoke with Summers, now the Eliot University professor, last Thursday and rescinded the invitation, according to University of California spokesman Trey Davis. Susan Kennedy, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s chief of staff, will replace Summers at the event. Several...
...York University School of Law to join the Harvard Law School faculty next fall. The appointment of Robert H. Sitkoff to the tenure-track professorship is the Law School’s fifth appointment of the year, and comes just a week after the Law School announced that Gabriella Blum and D. James Greiner would be joining the faculty as assistant professors. The other two professors who were appointed earlier in the year were Kathryn Spier of Northwestern University’s School of Management and School of Law and Noah R. Feldman ’92 of New York...
...first cases shipped in 1995, but lean years followed as the company unsuccessfully tried to market Bionade solely on its health claims. The turning point came in 1999, when marketing expert Wolfgang Blum arrived. He gave Bionade a radical makeover - a slick retro blue, white and red logo, and a new strategy, branding it as a hip lifestyle drink that happened to be healthy. With no budget for television or print advertising, the company needed to get everyone else - especially the media - to spread the word, Blum says. So Bionade sponsored hundreds of sporting, cultural and kids' events across Germany...