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...life as a member of the multi-billion dollar Pritzker dynasty. Instead, the girl who once told classmates that she just worked at a hotel behind the front desk—casually failing to mention that her family owned the chain—has made a name for herself, distinct from her family’s.This Hyatt heiress founded and runs the luxury retirement community series Hyatt Classic Residence, serves as president and CEO of Pritzker Realty Group, chairs the board of the credit reporting company TransUnion, and sits on the Harvard Board of Overseers. Forbes magazine ranked Pritzker number...
...Bush defended intimates such as Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, repeatedly emphasizing that they foster a sense of "security and freedom" lacking in his relationship with Gore. Overall, the transcript reveals 48 distinct uses by Bush of the word "freedom," including 19 instances alone when, apropos of nothing, he sang the complete lyrics to George Michael's six-and-a-half-minute pop anthem "Freedom...
...peers who are similar in age and inexperience. Engineering programs, which can force an added semester—or more—on their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating a quasi-independent School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard institutionalizes the distinctions between undergraduate engineers and their College peers, posing an added threat to Harvard’s effort to fulfill its liberal arts mission for all of its students. One of Harvard’s virtues is its unitary undergraduate population, and even though the proposed school would only educate undergraduates...
...have occurred more recently than 6.3 million years, and probably [even] more recently than 5.4 million years,” Reich said. These figures differ from previous estimates that the human-chimp split occurred 6.5 to 7.4 million years ago, a figure that was based on hominid fossils with distinctive human features dating from that period. “It suggests that there was gene flow after the development of human-like features, like upright walking,” Reich said. To explain the discrepancy between the appearance of human-like features and the later divergence date, the Broad researchers...
...personally, it will be a distinct pleasure to work closely with someone who has been a good friend and colleague for more than 30 years," Bok said in a statement. "We are all in his debt for his willingness once again to accept the challenge of leading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...