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...their eloquence, but I have yet to hear as excellent and pithy a summation of a man as I did on the day of my grandfather’s funeral. Several of his children, grandchildren, and the parish priest had already spoken, offering sincere yet unremarkable praise of his conduct in this world and his fate in the next. The final speaker was a friend of my grandfather’s who had also served in the pacific theater during the Second World War. The marine made his way up to the platform slowly. Everything about him suggested that...
...reminded the reporter that Finkelstein accuses virtually every pro-Israel writer of these literary crimes. I also would have reminded the writer that when Finkelstein first made these accusations more than two years ago, I insisted that Harvard investigate them. Former Harvard President Derek C. Bok was appointed to conduct the investigation and found no plagiarism. Neither did James Freedman, the former president of Dartmouth and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Harvard Law librarian concluded that my use of citations was certainly correct. I also would have told the reporter that despite Finkelstein’s implication...
...International Monetary Fund study. Walker Professor of Business Administration Krishna G. Palepu, the HBS Dean for International Development, said that while the IRC’s faculty will be entirely from HBS, he envisions a center that can contribute to India while giving HBS professors an opportunity to conduct research about it. “We see ourselves as bringing value to the local institutions instead of competing with them,” Palepu said. “We try to offer programs that are more research driven.” In addition to the research aspect...
...achieved through negotiations his vision of a nonracial, majority-ruled South Africa. But to ensure success, Mandela was compelled to forgive conduct toward himself and all South African blacks that his own moral code tells him is unforgivable. That he bowed to such compromise is testimony to the fact that the Nelson Mandela who walked with such dignity out of prison in February 1990 was not the same firebrand who had been placed there 27 years before. Born into the royal family of the Thembu, a clan of the Xhosa tribe based in the Transkei, Mandela was trained...
DIED. RICHARD SMALLEY, 62, nanotechnology pioneer who shared a Nobel Prize with fellow chemists Robert Curl and Sir Harold Kroto for discovering a highly stable, soccer-ball-shaped carbon molecule, a cylindrical version of which--100,000 times thinner than a human hair--can conduct electricity; of cancer; in Houston. The playful professor--among the honors listed on his curriculum vitae is Rice University Homecoming Queen--dubbed the molecule buckminsterfullerene because it resembled the geodesic domes of architect Buckminster Fuller...