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...What I remember most of Alan is the respect he gave the students, a rare thing between a boss in his late fifties and a frosh who’d just shown up,” says Benjamin T. Clark ’09, a sophomore techie...
...should aim for a lower ambition," Dannatt said. The general wants Britain's 7,000 troops out "sometime soon" because "I want an army in five years' time, 10 years' time; don't let's break it on this one." Not what you might call music to his boss's ears. When officials working for Tony Blair got first reports of Dannatt's newspaper interview, they wondered why he had taken the army's top job if he disagreed with its principal mission. When the full text arrived, Blair's aides decided that he was not frontally criticizing...
...undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant by Summers, then an MIT assistant professor, according to The Journal of Economic Perspectives. And prior to Shleifer’s appointment as the Jones professor, around the time that Shleifer’s once-and-future boss became Harvard’s president, Summers told Knowles that he “was concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard” because of Shleifer’s academic potential, according to a 2002 deposition given by Summers. Summers later told The Crimson that he recused himself...
...Menendez himself has not been implicated in any wrongdoing, but many Democratic leaders in the state have been involved in scandals going back more than two decades. Kean's campaign calls Menendez "Boss Bob," alleging he operates in Hudson County politics like an old-time machine politician. A Kean aide told TIME, "We want more info on Bob Menendez. Unfortunately, you have go to prison to find Bob Menendez's friends," a not-so-subtle reference to Democratic politicians in the state who have been sent away in corruption scandals. For his part, Menendez is now attacking Kean after learning...
...undergraduate at Harvard, he was hired as a research assistant by Summers, then an MIT assistant professor, according to The Journal of Economic Perspectives. And prior to Shleifer’s appointment as the Jones professor, around the time that Shleifer’s once-and-future boss became Harvard’s president, Summers told Knowles that he “was concerned to make sure that Professor Shleifer remained at Harvard” because of Shleifer’s academic potential, according to a 2002 deposition given by Summers...