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Through marriage, friendship and patronage, the Duke of Wellington, the Roosevelts, Wallis Simpson and Winston Churchill (whose christening robes are still on display) made up the Leslies' inner circle and were frequent guests. But by the '60s, inheritance taxes had eroded the castle's fortunes, and its complexion began to change. Desmond Leslie, an experimental musician, set up a nightclub in the grounds. Called Annabel's on the Bog (named after the famous society nightspot in London's Mayfair), it attracted the likes of Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull...
...love who spends each day by Barack Obama's side, attending to his every need, isn't his wife Michelle. It's Reggie Love, a 6-ft. 4-in. former Duke basketball and pro-football player who has worked with Obama for the past two years, first as a staff assistant and now as his personal aide...
...filing a false police report, the equivalent of a misdemeanor, and possible expulsion. Princeton's administration initially came under some criticism for not responding vocally to the incident. Students and professors are now praising the University's measured response. "Princeton's name is not stained in the way that Duke's name is stained because the folks at Duke rushed to conclusions before they had completed the investigation," says George. "We didn't do that." "Our priority," says Cass Cliatt, a University spokesperson, "is to substantiate any reports before determining a course of action, while at the same time recognizing...
Strugnell held positions at the Oriental Institute of Chicago and Duke University before joining the Harvard faculty...
...gauge junior faculty satisfaction—including the reasonableness of the tenure process, support available for faculty members with families, and compensation—Harvard only received an exemplary rating in one area: teaching. Stanford and Brown University both received exemplary status on eight of the criteria, followed by Duke with seven, and Dartmouth with six. Patricia P. Jones, vice provost for faculty development and diversity and a biology professor at Stanford, attributes some of the disparities in faculty satisfaction to differences in the relationship between schools and their parent universities. “Schools within Harvard are very independent...