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...communication skills,” Segel said of Light. “And—this is really important—he’s an extremely good listener.”Light said at a press conference announcing his appointment yesterday afternoon that he expects his tenure to follow a similar path to that of his predecessor, Kim B. Clark ’74, who resigned his post last summer after 10 years at the helm to assume the presidency of Brigham Young University-Idaho.“I think there are going to be more similarities than differences...
...undergraduates today commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, they will follow in the footsteps of their predecessors who sponsored refugees from Nazi Germany to complete an undergraduate education. Holocaust Remembrance Day marks the 63rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when captive Jews in Poland’s capital attempted a revolt. As German forces marched through Europe and then attempted to exterminate the continent’s Jews, student pressure here at Harvard eventually caused the University to sponsor the full undergraduate educations of 14 refugees by 1944. Rahel Kestenberg, who fled from Prague, was the first Jewish refugee...
...They were found to prefer the grape flavor over apple, and larger quantities over smaller ones. When the monkeys were making the choices, specific neurons in the OFC showed increasing levels of activity in correlation to values assigned to each commodity. Padoa-Schioppa said that there should be many follow up projects to this study with interesting implications, especially when stepping outside the realm of material goods. “Could the same brain area also be connected to decisions on social goods such as sex? Further research will look at questions like this,” he said...
Tony Snow, the conservative commentator and Fox News host, is awaiting a follow-up report from his oncologist before deciding whether to accept an offer to become President Bush?s third White House Press Secretary, succeeding Scott McClellan, an official close to Snow told TIME Tuesday morning...
...Abramoff-related news. Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio and his former Chief of Staff Neil Volz both signed waivers last fall extending for six months the statute of limitations on any potential crimes relating to Abramoff; that deadline comes this weekend, and there is much speculation among those who follow the corruption scandal that the first Abramoff-related indictment of a sitting Congressman may be around the corner. And everyone is holding their breath to see if Tom DeLay's former Chief of Staff, Ed Buckham, is indicted - which could ultimately bring another two or three Republican congressmen into...