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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...
...greatest scrutiny will be of California's 50th congressional district, which is holding a special election to replace Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who pled guilty to bribery charges earlier this year. This is a solidly Republican district that Cunningham carried with more than 60% and President Bush carried by 11% in the last election. The mere fact that the Democratic challenger, Francine Busby, a school board member, has made the race competitive indicates the difficulties that Republicans could face in trying to retain control of the House this fall. The G.O.P. nominee, Brian Bilbray, is a former member of Congress...