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...first left the house.Somehow we made do indoors. Two nights before a game he’d pull out his yellow legal pad and we’d go to work drawing up our plan of attack. Giddy with anticipation, I’d invariably have drawn up my own lineup hours in advance during soccer season. Our league held four-quarter games, and every player had to participate in at least three. I had rather strong opinions on who should sit and when, which I never failed to share. He’d invariably nod and laugh before gently...
...have gotten involved with in our community, both with the reform of the Chicago Public School system and the charter school movement.”Although the Pritzker name has repeatedly appeared in the news because of the family’s accomplishments and donations, it has also drawn negative publicity.Pritzer’s youngest cousin—an actress who starred in “A Little Princess”—filed a lawsuit in 2002 alleging that the her father and other family members mismanaged and diverted money from her trust fund. The younger Pritzker?...
...actions were intentionally anti-Semitic. In his 2002 Memorial Church speech, Summers held out the possibility that supporters of the Israel divestment petition might not be anti-Semitic “in intent.” Like his 2002 remarks, Summers’ statement this week has drawn fire here at Harvard. One of Summers’ fiercest critics, Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, said that “the knee jerk accusation that targeted criticism of Israel singles out Israel is as absurd as stating that...
...city to evict.“People were being literally driven out of their neighborhoods by Harvard expansion,” says David Sullivan, a 1977 graduate of Harvard Law School who was elected to the City Council in 1979.Harvard’s authority as a landlord was drawn from the Dover Amendment, a state statute that exempts non-profit educational institutions from zoning laws, which regulate the permitted uses of property.Because the offices planned for the Sumner Street building all fell under the category of educational use, the city could not stop Harvard from driving those tenants out.Though...
...Stoner adds that if accusations of plagiarism, like those brought against Viswanathan earlier this year, had occurred at a lesser-known university, they would not have created the same “national fervor.”Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba also says that the controversy has drawn so much attention because of the “brand name” that Harvard carries. In addition, Verba says that the $500,000 advance given to Viswanathan for her two-book contract added to the media attention.CHEATING IS STILL RAREWhile these incidents show that speculation of cheating occasionally come...