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...butt heads with their upstate New York rivals, the Saints host Yale and Brown, both bottom-tier teams that have combined for one win in the last three weeks. Any unanswered victory for St. Lawrence will put the squad in strong position to defend an outright fourth seed when it arrives in Cambridge next week. Last time Harvard met Cornell—in Cambridge, on Nov. 11—the Big Red staged a devastating third-period comeback. Although the Crimson split the weekend with a 6-4 win over the Raiders the following night, this weekend?...
Your editorial “Running all the way to the Bank” (Feb. 10), in which you defend Harvard’s compensation of its investment managers, reveals not just your misplaced priorities, but also your total lack of understanding of the investment management business. Just yesterday, you published an article in which Dave Swenson, Yale’s chief investment officer, roundly criticized Harvard’s compensation plan as excessive and dangerous to the fabric of the University (“Yale’s Chief Investor Says HMC Overpays,” news...
...like to see a little more positive leadership,” Pinker said.Another well-known Summers supporter, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, also said he wanted the president to respond forcefully to his opponents.“He needs to start defending himself,” Mansfield said, “and to answer and refute his miserable critics.”Summers now faces the daunting task of galvanizing his backers without further antagonizing his foes.Professor of Public Service David R. Gergen, who advised four U.S. presidents and also counseled Summers during last...
...shielded from satire in the West.” Muslims are becoming increasingly present in the West but it is clear that some hold radical ideas that are incompatible with fundamental values held by the West. In the face of worldwide Muslim violence, the West has an obligation to defend the freedom of speech; wariness of terrorism by Islamic groups has, quite understandably, risen since 9/11 but Western representative organizations cannot shrink from defending their values and Mr. Rasmussen and the EU must be commended for their valiant refusal...
...moment what was strange was that at the meeting on Tuesday, those people weren’t present. Maybe it was just too early in the semester, coping with shopping period—that may have been what it was. In any case, nobody got up to defend him at that meeting. But I’m sure there will be supporters of him at the February 28 meeting. FM: Your hopes and expectations for that meeting? JR: I just want to see how it comes out. I’m curious...