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Roger Lowenstein on former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan: "Greenspan's was a Rousseauean vision of markets as untainted social organisms--evolved, as it were, from a state of nature. (It overlooked the obvious point that markets were also human constructs--made...
...Enter Jha, a former Qualcomm executive who had become a rock star in industry circles. Hired in 2008, Jha was enticed to Motorola with $100 million in performance-contingent bonuses and stock options, making him one of the highest paid U.S. executives that year. "Motorola's [board] had to decide - shut down the business, or find one of the very few people both capable and willing to turn things around," says Avian Securities analyst Matt Thornton. "Someone of Sanjay's caliber had to have incentives to take this...
...student of longtime Los Angeles high school teacher Jaime Escalante's, now a teacher herself, called her former instructor "a master artist." Indeed, it was his refusal to accept commonly held beliefs that made his work so beautiful. Unlike many others, he refused to tolerate the notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials...
...Former New Hampshire Attorney General and Republican Senate hopeful Kelly A. Ayotte encouraged Republicans to return to the core values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and national safety at the Harvard Republican Club’s eighth annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday...
...Former Harvard Overseer and Boston-based intellectual property lawyer William F. Lee ’72 has been selected to serve on the Harvard Corporation and said yesterday that he plans to continue the University’s highest governing body’s efforts to increase its transparency...