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Philip H. Thurston, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus who taught at the school for 31 years, died March 24 at his Massachusetts home. He was 87. Thurston joined the HBS faculty in 1958 after receiving his doctorate in business administration at the school. As a faculty member, Thurston taught in both the MBA and Executive Education programs while also serving in administrative roles. Colleagues remembered Thurston last week as honest and warm. “He was a native of Maine...and it seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs?...
...abroad—and regarded by many as the most likely Taiwanese presidential candidate in 2008—Ma attracted an audience from across New England. “As a student here, he showed quite mature views about cross-strait relations,” said Ezra F. Vogel, emeritus Ford II research professor of the social sciences and former director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. “His US tour has been very successful. He has the potential for making great strides in cross-strait relations.” A graduate of Harvard Law School...
...news program 60 Minutes; in the spring; in New York City. Over a storied career begun on Chicago radio in the 1940s, the ex-game-show host helped invent the TV interview with a hard-charging approach to subjects from Eleanor Roosevelt to Yasser Arafat. He will become correspondent emeritus, a post he said entitled him to "longer vacations...
...best hip-hop singles artist of the last ten years, the 33-year-old ex-Leader of the New School/Native Tongues badass/Grand Inquisitor of the Scenario/Co-Keeper of Y’all in Check/General Director of Hands Placement for Visual Optimization/Executive Breaker of Necks/Ordained Minister of Courvoisier Passage/Professor Emeritus of Lighting Ya Ass On Fire finally sounds a little tired. And while I wish more rappers were able to hold down a steady career after hitting 30, it probably isn’t going to happen for the Flipmode founder. Producer Swizz Beatz samples Daft Punk’s song...
...well as Mozart’s “Piano Concerto No. 24,” featuring soloist Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Robert D. Levin ’68. Newly elected HRO President Chrix E. Finne ’07, began the evening by introducing President Emeritus James “Jimbo” F. Collins ’06, and extending a jovial welcome to the junior parents in the audience. A junior himself, Finne made a special shout-out to his own mother, setting the tone for the concert’s family-friendly atmosphere...