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...deal. Or, you could jump on the bandwagon and take QR 34, “Counting People: Demography and Human Affairs,” a massively popular QR. It’s a class on demography—on birth rates and mortality rates. (Viva Professor Peter T. Ellison, death to snotty TFs 1 through 6). Ellison walks you through Excel, making the twenty-page country reports manageable, and he drops the lowest of your three quiz grades. But it doesn’t really matter when your TF manages to mark everyone down to a C. The class should...
...strong fundraising returns came amid fears that large donors would table their gifts in the wake of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ departure. Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive of Oracle Corp., called off his plans to donate $115 million and create the Ellison Institute for World Health—a decision he attributed to Summers’ resignation. At least three other substantial gifts were cancelled, including $100 million from publisher and real-estate tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, $100 million from former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith ’46, and $75 million from banker David Rockefeller...
...death of the pro-war Democrat. In New York Hillary Clinton won overwhelmingly over her anti-war challenger, Jonathan Tasini, in a race that was never competitive. The anti-war left did little to oppose her in the race, suggesting Lieberman?s contest was a special case. Keith Ellison, who won in a crowded Democratic primary in a liberal district around the Twin Cities in Minnesota, is in position to become the first Muslim to be elected to the Congress...
Nineteen affiliates were evacuated from Lebanon through ISOS and the efforts of the Harvard evacuation planning team, which was led by Vice Provost of International Affairs Jorge I. Domínguez. and Assistant Dean of the College John L. Ellison. Another 12 have been evacuated “in other ways,” Domínguez said...
Friday we spent the day watching the news. I got a call on my cell phone from [Assistant Dean of the College John L.] Ellison telling us the University wanted us to evacuate and that we would be taken out by a private company...