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...past week, the Indian media have been playing up the Mahajan scandal as emblematic of a hidden hard drug scourge among India's elite. Expos?s detail how cocaine is purportedly all the rage among chic Delhi denizens, with posh South Delhi neighborhoods singled out as coke, acid, and ecstasy hotbeds. Journalists routinely quote anonymous socialites, designers, and models on the drug scene at clubs, raves, and even weddings. One paper went so far as to list Bollywood stars living in Bombay who are rumored to have hefty coke habits. A particularly juicy allegation making the rounds is that wealthy Indians...
...Maybe if it was a reporter purporting to write a full and complete news account of the entire incident it would be suspicious to drop the methamphetamine aspect, but it would be silly in the context of my book to mention every detail of how Ashley Smith dealt with a hardened killer from whom she was fighting for her life. What transformed her kidnapper was not meth, but Christian love...
...year after outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers promised $50 million to initiatives for the University’s women and minorities, Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity Evelynn M. Hammonds will update the University on June 12 with a report detailing the efforts of her office.It will contain analyses of the composition of Harvard’s faculty, new childcare guidelines, and data from surveys of junior professors—all significant recommendations of the two faculty task forces created in the wake of Summers’ Jan. 2005 remarks on women in science, which produced pages...
...opened their mailboxes to find anonymous, unmarked envelopes.Enclosed were copies of “How Harvard Lost Russia,” an article by veteran investigative journalist David W. McClintick ’62 in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments in the Russian economy, and Harvard paid...
...promised the biggest singles at Harvard if they came here. “In ‘Elmwood Hall,’ my house,” he deadpanned. And he asked all about my sister, my best friend but a bit of a rival. This was a detail he remembered a few months later when he signed a dollar bill for her, “Your brother is great, but you are better—Larry Summers,” which delighted her for months.During chats in his office, Larry was surprisingly frank. He never told me what...