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AFTER HE WAS APPOINTED Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff by President Ronald Reagan in 1985, Admiral William Crowe Jr.'s esteemed counsel and leadership helped placate difficult situations with the Soviet Union, Iran and Libya, leading the New York Times to call him the "most powerful peacetime military officer in American history." The nonconformist Vietnam vet with three advanced degrees openly condemned the military's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy as anti-gay and sharply criticized the buildup to the first Gulf War. He served as U.S. ambassador to Britain during the Clinton Administration. Crowe...
...current president of the Pierian Foundation and a former clarinetist in HRO. “So if there are certain types of mistakes the students are just about to make, we remember the last time the mistake was made and we give the orchestra advise and counsel.” THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS?Today, the HRO has traveled far from its origins as a group of rowdy young men “dedicated to the consumption of brandy and cigars as well as the serenading of young ladies,” as the group’s website...
...that provided eight $50 subsidies each week to encourage students to host parties. Elected by an overwhelming majority, the UC under Chopra and Stannard-Friel formally established the party grant program in 2003. According to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, Chopra sought outside legal counsel who indicated there would be no legal liability on the University’s part...
...Petersen says he learned only after Pilbeam’s announcement that the Office of the General Counsel had been providing the deans of the College with extensive legal advice over the summer. “They did not tell Dean Kidd or [Assistant Dean of Harvard College] Paul McLoughlin that the program was illegal,” says Petersen, “Rather, based on its assessment, Dean Kidd and Paul McLoughlin determined that the party grant program must be discontinued...
...associate professor at HMS. “But a lot of people are starting to realize that the influence of drug companies in health care is pervasive and may be more than we want it to be.” According to Marjorie E. Powell, senior assistant general counsel for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, interactions between industry and academia have led to improved treatments for patients. Those discoveries, in turn, have outweighed the potential for conflicts of interest. “There are a variety of built-in safeguards,” Powell said...