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Clarence Douglas Dillon ’31, a former Wall Street investment banker, ambassador, Secretary of the Treasury under two presidents and two-time member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, died last Friday in New York. He was 93.
The Dillon family has a history of donating to the University. Dillon’s father, Clarence Dillon, gave Harvard the Dillon Field House after the old Locker House burned down in 1930, as well as generous monetary gifts. He established two Kennedy School professorships: the Douglas Dillon Professorship of...
NICHOLAS NICKLEBY. Adapted from the Dickens novel, Nicholas Nickleby features a diverse cast that includes The Birdcage’s Nathan Lane and The Princess Diaries’ Anne Hathaway. In transferring to the screen the story of a fatherless young man seeking to reunite with his remaining family members...
Frist, who led the G.O.P.'s drive to recapture the Senate in November, has always been the favorite of the White House, which believes he has the political savvy and media skills to repair the damage from Lott's statement and push Bush's aggressive agenda in the next Congress...
In the end, he decided he did not want the presidency badly enough. When Houston-based Halliburton, the oil-services giant, offered him its vacant CEO position, he took it, earning some $2 million a year. And when Bush II came along with the offer of Vice President, Cheney hesitated...