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Several major Harvard figures passed away this year. The most prominent was Warburg Professor of Economics Otto Eckstein. who succumbed to a long bout with cancer in March Eckstein, who was 56, will be remembered by generations of Harvard undergraduates as the leader of Economics 10, later Social Analysis 10. "Principles of Economics." His colleagues will remember him as one of the early pioneers of economic forecasting. Eckstein was the founder of Data Resources Inc the largest forecasting firm in the world...
...have been a bout of natural shyness, but more likely it was the billows of lofty praise that kept the Princess of Wales blushingly silent in Glasgow last week. Diana was there to accept an honorary fellowship from the city's Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. "For five centuries the perceptive heads of the Spencer family have married women of surpassing beauty, and the daughters they begat relegated Cleopatra to eclipse," gushed Professor Stanley Alstead during his presentation speech. After the ceremony, an admiring young Glaswegian, appropriately named Edward Romeo, begged permission to "kiss your hand...
Democratic Bout...
After each bout of shelling, patients flock to their doctors complaining of stomach pains and headaches, symptoms of stress. Though in some neighborhoods canvas sheets have been hung across streets to block the view of snipers, only the brave venture out at night. Maurice Moyse, 82, proprietor of a French restaurant in West Beirut, shrugs as gunfire outside interrupts his recitation of the day's specials. "They are mad," he says. One wonders, though, who is really crazy: the snipers, Moyse or the reporter sitting by the window with only a gingham curtain between him and the unseen gunmen...
...Crimson was only one among many institutions and individuals who were touched by Otto Eckstein's warmth and sense of humor over the course of his more than 30 years at Harvard. When Eckstein died last month after a long bout with cancer, he left a legacy of caring for the hundreds of people in his life--from his professional colleagues in the Economics Department, to the businessmen and government officials he knew in his multi-faceted career, to the many undergraduate and graduate students he knew...