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Fresh from a two-year sabbatical in Washington, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences Ezra F. Vogel assumed the directorship of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research this month...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Vogel Takes Over Fairbank Center | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

Vogel said he will serve as the center's director for the next three years and is succeeding Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society James L. Watson, a social anthropologist...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Vogel Takes Over Fairbank Center | 9/25/1995 | See Source »

...months in the fall of 1966, Harvard seemed to be pretty much what I'd expected from the admissions materials: there were lectures from faculty luminaries like John King Fairbank and George Wald, long evenings in Lamont, coats and ties at meals in the Freshman Union, somewhat stilted sherry receptions, awkward mixers and even some lazy afternoons rowing on the Charles...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: A Year of PROTESTS DEMONSTRATIONS | 6/6/1995 | See Source »

Anthropologist James L. Watson, Fairbank professor of Chinese society, said it was not China that would absorb Hong Kong, but Hong Kong that would absorb China...

Author: By Martin L. Yeung, | Title: Panelists Discuss Hong Kong's Future | 4/12/1994 | See Source »

Reich was born in 1946 with a rare condition later diagnosed as Fairbank's disease, in which the lower spine fuses and the upper legs don't grow properly. In June he had to undergo painful surgery on his hip joints; when he was a child, the condition and his size kept him from participating in sports. But he compensated by writing and illustrating his own books (starting at age six) and with music and humor and theater. He grew up in South Salem, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, the son of Republican parents who owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's People: Robert Reich | 11/23/1992 | See Source »

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