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...took yet another case to the office of New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer, who was in the midst of a spree of high-profile fraud prosecutions. Spitzer's experts contacted the FBI, and after Minkow agreed to wear a wire and record phone conversations with the purported scam artists as they solicited new money, the agency verified that the suspects were using an offshore shell company to bilk hundreds of millions of dollars from investors by pledging annual profits of more than 38% and an eight-year rate of return in excess of 1,000%. TIME has confirmed that...
When T.S. Eliot, Class of 1910, looked out of his soon-to-be-Eliot House window and saw an imposing icescape of Edwardian poetry, sparkling but frozen in its ways, did he shy away? No. After a few whiskeys in the offices of the Harvard Advocate, he sallied forth and ate the oppressive literary sundae whole, producing Four Quartets several hours later before indulging in a quick Rum Raisin nightcap...
...inaugural address, Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853, stated that “the corporation will not receive women as students into the College” because “the world knows next to nothing about the natural mental capacities of the female sex.” After 136 years, it appears that Harvard presidents are still grappling with the same question. Last Friday, University President Lawrence H. Summers cited innate differences as a possible explanation for the lack of women in science and math. His comments have set off an explosion of controversy?...
Joshua D. Gottlieb ’07 is an economics and mathematics concentrator inEliot House. He is also a Crimson editor. Stephen A. Wertheim ’07 is a history concentrator in Eliot House...
Mark A. Adomanis ’07, a Crimson editorial editor, is a government concentrator in Eliot House...