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...involvement in a national scandal that implicated one of Summers’ close friends and colleagues in Harvard’s economics department.In the early 1990s, Andrei Shleifer had been the Russian project director for the Harvard Institute for International Development, which received funding from the U.S. State Department??s Agency for International Development to advise the former communist country as it moved toward economic privatization. During his time advising the Russian government, Shleifer invested personally in the country, and in 2004, a federal judge found Shleifer liable for conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government. The judge also...
...allocated for American art, the Harvard Art Museum announced on Friday. “It’s a great thing because it means that the department will exist for a long time, for 100 years or 300 years,” said Stebbins, whose position as the department??s curator is now permanently funded. Stebbins was appointed as the distinguished fellow and consultative curator of American art at the Fogg in 2000 and began serving as the curator of American art when the department was established in 2002. Part of the money raised will...
...while the concentration has always held a special place in the University—as a bridge between the sciences and the humanities—its honors-only status scared away many people. The removal of the thesis requirement creates another option for students, and it also reflects the department??s commitment to enable students to adapt the concentration to their particular needs, professors said...
...autumn vegetable soup and cider-and-thyme-steamed mussels, was Harvard University Dining Services’ chief contribution to the University’s Sustainability Week. “Sustainability is something that we’ve focused an enormous amount of attention on and is one of our department??s overriding goals,” said HUDS spokeswoman Crista Martin. “[This dinner] is a great way to complement tomorrow’s [sustainability celebration] event.” The Sustainable Dinners were held in all College Dining Halls, the Radcliffe Institute?...
...member of the City of Cambridge Finance Department??who declined to be named because the document is confidential—said that the club has begun paying off the back taxes and interest but that city records show that it is still approximately $17,000 short...