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...Williams has chosen not to identify the student, and The Standard-Times has complied with the request of the faculty members and the university not to reveal the student’s name, which could not be independently obtained...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UMass Student Admits Tale of Snooping Agents Was Fabricated | 12/30/2005 | See Source »

...decades, a small number of Business School grads have chosen Washington over Wall Street. For instance, Robert S. McNamara, the secretary of defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the former president of the World Bank, earned an MBA from Harvard...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez and Daniel J. T. Schuker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: HBS Attracts Washington-Bound | 12/20/2005 | See Source »

Until she quit in 1996, Stonesifer was the highest-ranking female executive at Microsoft, and she got generous stock options to go with it. As a result, she has chosen to forgo a salary at the foundation. But she runs it with the ferocity of a Wall Street titan. When she met with Senator Jesse Helms on Capitol Hill, he called her a spark plug--twice. "None of us knew much about health," she says. "We just kept finding people whom we trusted. And we learned and learned. We used the same skills we'd applied to business prospects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Riches to Rags | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...visitation,” Pontbriand said, adding that the student also indicated that there may have been other people who experienced similar investigations. Pontbriand declined to comment further on the specifics of the incident in order to protect the student’s anonymity, who, according to Pontbriand, has chosen not to identify himself publicly. A representative from the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to requests for comment yesterday. But Harvard Law School Clinical Professor of Law John G. Palfrey ’94 said that he doubts that a request for the Little Red Book alone could...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Homeland Security Agents Visit UMass Student | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...Pope's dearest friends, and Vatican insiders have quietly speculated about this final encounter between the two men. Some, according to Vatican sources, actually believe the Pope prophesied to Ratzinger that the German would be his successor. Whatever form the conversation took, the Church administrator was indeed chosen three weeks later by his brother Cardinals to succeed John Paul II. The new Pope has stepped onto the world stage with grace, warmth and an understated clout, qualities that make him our choice for European Newsmaker of the Year. A man often described as methodical and contemplative - even downright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man On A Mission | 12/18/2005 | See Source »

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