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...Ph.D. From 1984 to 1994 he taught at Princeton, before coming to Harvard. Campbell also serves on Harvard’s Debt-Asset Management Committee and is a partner at the hedge-fund Arrowstreet Capital, L.P. Professor N. Gregory Mankiw, who was on the hiring committee that chose Campbell in the early 1990s, announced Campbell’s appointment on his blog. “I have long thought that my biggest contribution to Harvard was being part of the team that recruited John to the university,” he wrote on his blog...
...such an ambitious undertaking. He started playing the piano at age five and began to improvise and compose shortly afterward. The Boston-area native soon became interested in performing jazz, and he took composition lessons at the New England Conservatory throughout high school. When college rolled around, Schachter chose a liberal arts education at Harvard over the conservatory experience: “I never really wanted to go to a conservatory because I thought I would be intellectually and socially stifled. The Harvard music department gave off good vibes, and the great compositional faculty attracted me here...
...author of Vanderbilt’s biography, is a teacher of nonfiction creative writing at Columbia University and the author of “Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War,” a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Stiles said he chose Vanderbilt as the subject of his book because Vanderbilt’s “is an important life but it is important because it is woven into so many other things than just business.” “It was woven into the course of American events...
...informed Kantrovitz that with established players firmly holding on to most of the infield positions—including Kantrovitz’s natural position of shortstop, occupied by David Forst ’98—Kantrovitz’s playing time would be limited in his freshman year.He chose Brown instead, where he was part of coach Marek Drabinski’s first recruiting class and was immediately given the chance to start.Kantrovitz responded with an impressive career in which he picked up 208 hits—good for seventh all-time in the Ivy League?...
...Harvard Kennedy School yesterday evening after learning of his state’s first probable case of swine flu. He was scheduled to give a presentation titled “The Need to Transform America’s Education, Health Care, and Energy Systems,” but instead chose to remain in his home state to respond to the development. “This is a situation that can become more serious,” he said in a press conference yesterday. “It is a sign for concern. It is not a sign for panic...