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...past 12 years.For Timothy P. McCarthy ’93, a lecturer in the History and Literature department and the Kennedy School of Government, and a resident tutor in Quincy House, has a much more personal reason called him back to Cambridge. While pursuing a PhD at Columbia University in summer 1998, McCarthy became legal guardian of Malcolm Green, a boy he had mentored through the Big Brother program as an undergraduate. McCarthy essentially “adopted and raised him through high school,” while simultaneously writing his dissertation and teaching in Hist & Lit?...
...Drew G. Faust’s first-year salary will not be released until this spring. In 2006-2007, Ivy League presidents earned between $1—former University President Derek C. Bok forewent a salary during his interim term—and $1,411,894, taken home by Columbia University’s Lee C. Bollinger. Median pay and benefits for the heads of 184 public research universities was $427,400 in the 2007-2008 academic year, up 7.2 percent from the year before. Ohio State University’s E. Gordon Gee, whose $310,000 bonus announced earlier...
...fact, the Dalai Lama's chief goal in holding the extraordinary meeting of exiles is the exact opposite, says Columbia professor and renowned Tibetologist Robbie Barnett. He says the summit is an attempt to "reunify all the factions in the Tibetan exile movement" at a time when it appears to be at its most fragmented. "He's been criticized strongly in the past for not allowing free discussion. This is a great way to answer that criticism," Barnett says. He thinks the likelihood of the more radical voices gaining the upper hand in the discussions is low. "They...
...free Tibet. After protests this March in Lhasa that turned violent, the radicals were energized. But since then they have been unable to channel their efforts constructively. "The community is feeling slightly lost and helpless," says Tsering Shakya, a Tibetan scholar and professor at the University of British Columbia who has written extensively about modern Tibetan history. This week's meeting is an attempt on the part of Tibetan leadership to allow Tibetans to voice their views openly - i.e., without feeling inhibited about criticizing the Dalai Lama - and perhaps to restore some sense of unity...
...perhaps the biggest wild card in the talks will be Tibetans inside Tibet, says Robbie Barnett, a professor of Tibetan studies at Columbia University in New York City. (There are 5.5 million, compared with about 130,000 in the global diaspora.) They won't be able to attend in person, but many of them are making their views heard through informal or secret communications. And with this group, too, there is a wide range of views, from radicalized former prisoners to those who are pushing for more concessions to China in the hopes of bringing the Dalai Lama back...