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...majority of academics speaking during thesummit are from Harvard's economics andAfro-American studies departments. They includeGeyser University Professor William Julius Wilson,Freeman and Fletcher University Professor CornelR. West...
When he was called to New York City in 1924 by the big-time bandleader Fletcher Henderson, Armstrong looked exactly like what he was, a young man who was not to be fooled around with and might slap the taste out of your mouth if you went too far. His improvisations set the city on its head. The stiff rhythms of the time were slashed away by his combination of the percussive and the soaring. He soon returned to Chicago, perfected what he was doing and made one record after another that reordered American music, such as Potato Head Blues...
President Neil L. Rudenstine named Robert C. Merton, the Harvard Business School (HBS) professor who shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, as the first John and Natty McArthur University Professor. Cornel West '74, famed author and philosopher, will hold the first Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professorship. And William Julius Wilson, a theorist on urban problem who has served as an unofficial adviser to President Clinton, was named Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor...
...American Revolution. As recently as 1959, its U.S. branch constituted an earnest and convivial army of 4.1 million. Yet today those ranks are decimated. True, the group is still a philanthropic presence, donating some $750 million a year to charities. But its 2.1 million national membership, notes Richard Fletcher of the Masonic Information Center in Silver Spring, Md., is "the lowest it's been in some time." By which he means since around 1888. And it will plummet further, since the average brother is pushing 70. To baby boomers the Masons are a fusty memory. To the boomers' children, well...
...Universal keycard access is a solution," saidOwen G. Fletcher '00. "I don't know who is astudent and who is not, otherwise anyone who lookslike a student you will...