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Pineda has answered her calling to leadership this year, assuming co-directorship of both BFA and Presencia Latina, as well as choreographing two pieces—“Jesusita” and “La Bamba”—which BFA will perform in the show. In choreographing “Jesusita,” a traditional Mexican piece from the era of the Mexican Revolution, Pinada has been able to return to the women’s dancing she loved so much as a child. She emphasizes the presence of “several twirls...
Ignatieff, who left Harvard in September to become a visiting professor at a Canadian university and resigned from the directorship of Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights in December, was elected in January to the Canadian parliament. He is expected to become one of the front-runners in the race for Liberal Party leader...
...foundational. In a decade or two, there will be good reason to argue for a women’s wing in a shiny new student center. How seriously that request is taken will depend in large part on the framework that is established today. For now, the future directorship should be modeled after the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which provides grant money, helps coordinate events, and supports a range of educational projects. Sure, many of the services it provides aren’t so glamorous, but it brings interested students and faculty together and gives them...
Edison Liu is a Hong Kong native who studied in the U.S. and eventually rose to become director of the division of clinical sciences at the National Cancer Institute. But in 2001 the government of Singapore made him an offer he couldn't refuse: the directorship of the brand new Genome Institute along with a $25 million starting budget--part of a $288 million integrated network of life-science research centers and biotech start-ups called Biopolis. Says Liu: "I came because I saw that the entire leadership of the country, the fabric of the country was thirsting for biology...
Less than a week—and a few national news stories—later, Clark resigned his directorship at Lazard, stating in a letter to the firm’s general counsel that he wished to “eliminate the appearance of a conflict of interest” and “free the companies from unproductive distractions...