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...convertible to U.S. dollars. More than $2 million in BerkShares have been issued through the 12 branches of five local banks, according to Susan Witt, executive director of the E.F. Schumacher Society, the nonprofit behind the currency. And in South Africa, proprietary software keeps track of Community Exchange System (CES) Talents; one ambitious plan is to make Khayelitsha, a vast, desolate township of perhaps 1 million inhabitants near Cape Town, a self-sustaining community...
...recalls an incident when a teaching fellow burst into Hoffmann’s office with a course syllabus in hand. “Stanley, you are not doing this to these poor children!” Bass said in imitation of the teaching fellow. As founder of both CES and the Social Studies concentration, students said he strove to integrate various academic disciplines and combat the specialization of the University. “If Stanley had left the University in 1970, he still would have had an enormous shaping influence on Harvard,” said David Blackbourn, current director...
Hoffmann, a towering figure in the government department, began teaching at Harvard in 1955. Since then, he founded the CES in 1968 and helped to establish the committee on degrees in Social Studies...
...news story, "CES Founder Lauded at 80," repeatedly misspelled the name of the founder of the Center for European Studies. His name is Stanley Hoffmann, not Hoffman...
...finally eliminate it." Abu Sayyaf members are now said to be so cash-strapped they have turned again to kidnapping civilians for ransom. In January, suspected Abu Sayyaf gunmen killed a priest during a botched kidnapping on Tawi Tawi Island, not far from Jolo. On June 8 Ces Drilon, a well-known local TV-news anchor, vanished with her cameraman and an assistant near Jolo in what appears to be another Abu Sayyaf abduction...