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When Leland Stanford founded his university in 1885, California was caught up in the frontier, in the prime of the Gold Rush. Now, Stanford University is caught up in a new Gold Rush--the Internet era that may have the power to push Stanford above its peer schools and into...
"The legal profession and those who must struggle to be served by our system of justice have lost a great teacher and an ardent advocate," said John Hamilton, Jr., Bellow's Law School classmate and current chair of the Hale and Dorr Legal Service Center, which Bellow founded.
With his wife, Harvard Law School Lecturer Jeanne Charn, Bellow founded the Hale and Dorr Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plains. The center enables law school students to practice real cases and provides legal services to the poor.
In light of the latest local catastrophe, the mismanagement of the Central Artery Tunnel project (a.k.a. "The Big Dig"), it's nice to see that private citizens are taking it upon themselves to help serve the community at large. In this era of expanding government programs to levels that would...
Founded after World War II to fund reconstruction efforts, the World Bank later evolved into the primary lending institution for Third World development. Having disbursed some $400 billion in loans since its inception, the bank makes loans on a project basis, tied to "good governance." The bank generally requires its...