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Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff was 21 when he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in the summer of 1975. A couple of months earlier, the New Jersey native had submitted his senior thesis to the History Department. In his thesis, Chertoff sharply criticized the “incomplete, if not pernicious” utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham. Nearly a third of the 110-page essay was devoted to attacking what Chertoff saw as Bentham’s disregard for individual rights. But during Chertoff’s more recent record with the Bush administration, his view...
Friedan graduated summa cum laude from Smith College in 1942, where she also served as an editor of the campus newspaper. She spent a year as a graduate student in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley and later left to become a journalist...
...also recommended that departments cut back on the number of courses that concentrators must take, and allow non-honors-track students to graduate with cum laude degrees...
Cramer, who graduated magna cum laude from the College with a degree in government, was also president of The Crimson...
...running his empire. In 2003, the board voted unanimously to scrap the clauses Christina had imposed, saying the notion of a hereditary presidency was against the "letter and spirit of Onassis' will." The board also sanctioned a change of guard at the foundation, with Papadimitriou, 51 and an attorney-cum-economist, taking over the role of president from his father and longtime Onassis aide, Stelios Papadimitriou. Alexis Mantheakis, a former spokesman for the Roussel family, says bluntly: "The foundation has clearly slammed the door on Athina. There's still hope, though, that she can pry it wide open." Perhaps. Documents...