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Friends told stories of his undergraduate days at Yale, where he one time joked among campus Jews that the best way to discuss issues was to put on spandex and pointy styrofoam hats...
...Lawrence H. Summers’ Elmwood living room, a hand-picked group of Harvard foreign policy experts balanced their dinner plates on their laps. Weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Summers, then University president, had brought the professors together to discuss the coming war. Summers held court from a couch and directed the conversation. Two professors present at the dinner remember there was widespread skepticism about the reasons the Bush administration had provided for war—but nearly all thought the war would be a success. “In medicine, there’s medical malpractice...
...world’s fastest growing markets will take center stage this Sunday as Harvard Business School hosts its fifth annual India Conference. The conference, hosted by the South Asian Business Association at HBS, will feature 10 panel discussions with top Indian business leaders, who will discuss India’s global presence in fields like healthcare, private equity, media and entertainment, and energy. The two keynote speakers for the conference—whose sponsors include the Tata Group and Goldman Sachs—will be Vivek Paul, a partner at private equity firm Texas Pacific Group, and Alan Rosling...
...must account for the messages conveyed by the Commonwealth’s most widespread symbols,” and no doubt confronting the artifacts of the past is something all societies must do. The point of the bill—to establish a commission to discuss these semiotic issues—is a healthy expression of our willingness to articulate our orientation with the past. Hopefully, though, the commission will find that the “contemporary commitments” of the Commonwealth lie in the production of a harmonious future, not in re-fabricating elements of the past...
...leading oil producer - to help ease the crisis by pumping more oil onto the world market. He made a similar appeal in person when he visited King Abdullah in January. And now comes a new attempt by Cheney, as part of his 10-day trip to the region to discuss a number of crises. But oil analysts believe Cheney is unlikely to be any more successful than Bush has been...