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...days following John McCain's loss to Barack Obama, Steele declared on Fox News his interest in the RNC chairmanship - even though the sitting chair had not said he was leaving at the start of the new presidential Administration (and indeed, Mike Duncan was one of the candidates Steele defeated in Friday's vote). In a TIME interview during that period, Steele praised Obama's election as America's first black President. He made clear that as RNC chairman, he would move to temper the party's rigidity and truculence. In particular, one of the models he pointed...
...will fill Cutler’s place in the department while he is on leave. “A central function of Harvard is to develop new ideas that are important, and...developing those ideas can involve translating them to real world policy,” said Economics Department Chair James H. Stock, who received Cutler’s official leave form yesterday. “In that sense an important part of what we do here at Harvard is to provide leadership...in the public sector and the public domain.” “Sometimes you believe...
Harvard Law School announced Wednesday that it has received an anonymous donation of $10 million in honor of Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, to fund research and a faculty chair in his name. The donation will finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer...
...something more.” Laiou died of thyroid cancer at Mass. General Hospital in December. She was 67. As a scholar, Laiou spearheaded research in Mediterranean economic history and women’s history, and her 1985 appointment to lead the History department made her the first female chair of a department at Harvard. “She had the rare gift of an original mind, an iron will, and a penetrating intellect,” McCormick said. “She was fearless.” Elegantly coiffed and impeccably dressed, Greece’s former deputy secretary...
...about the arts. Through student internships, class visits and artist talks, the Rose fulfills its mission statement to “stimulate public awareness and disseminate knowledge of modern and contemporary art to enrich educational, cultural, and artistic communities regionally, nationally and internationally.” According to the chair of the Rose’s board of overseers, the collection is Brandeis University’s largest asset. Unfortunately that may have led to its ultimate downfall as the University searched for answers after seeing its endowment fall from $712 million to $549 million...