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...April 26 article headlined “Resolution Sought in Mass. Hall Standoff” quoted a protester on then-University President Rudenstine: “He only agrees to meet with us to perpetuate the impression that he’s listening.” This year, Duke University took the Internet public relations model to another level. In the wake of the lacrosse scandal, the university set up a web page, linked off of duke.edu, that carries official statements about the alleged rape of a local woman by three undergraduate lacrosse players as well as links to often...
...made available in full on the Kennedy School’s website March13, was pounced on almost immediately.The New York Sun published front-page stories about Walt and Mearsheimer every day of the next week. The Sun reported that a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, David E. Duke, had called the working paper “a great step forward.” And in the pages of the Sun, Kennedy School lecturer Marvin Kalb said that the Walt and Mearsheimer article “clearly does not meet the academic standards of a Kennedy School research paper...
...been an influential force in the University’s administration, with oversight of all of Harvard’s academic programs as well as the expansion into Allston.The most high-profile Harvard insider whose name has been mentioned is Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane, a former president of Duke University and Wellesley College and a member of the presidential search committee.Keohane, however, told The Boston Globe in March that she is “not available” for Harvard’s top job.“I want to tell people to please stop putting...
...brushfires Summers had ignited across the University deeply disturbed some Corporation members. Keohane, who herself had served as president of Wellesley College and Duke University, was a leader of the push to bring the Summers era to a close, according to the source close to the Corporation...
That sound you heard on Wednesday morning was a big sigh of relief from Republicans across the country over the results of a special election in a San Diego County congressional district where Republicans usually win without breaking a sweat. After ex-Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham earlier this year pleaded guilty to bribery and tax evasion, and was given an eight-year prison sentence, the election to name his replacement was watched by both parties as both a crucial test of how badly Republicans are likely to fare in this fall's midterms - and of whether the Democrats' recent "culture...