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...Corporation and Shleifer during the Summers presidency.The Shleifer case has been a source of discontent in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, especially during Summers’ tenure. Some professors believe that Shleifer received preferential treatment due to his close relationship with Summers.In February, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy contributed to the downfall of Summers when he asked the then-president about the case.When Summers said that he was not sufficiently knowledgeable about the case to express an opinion, he lost the support of several senior FAS professors and members of the Corporation, The Crimson has reported.The...
...February, McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering Frederick H. Abernathy contributed to the downfall of Summers when he asked the then-president about the case...
...Republican leaders and Bush Administration officials were starting to argue that certain elements of the intelligence apparatus, which tends to believe that Iran is still years away from developing a nuclear weapon, were not taking the threat seriously enough. (The fact that one of the report's authors was Frederick Fleitz, an ex-CIA officer who had worked for a leading Bush Administration hawk, now-U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, also raised some eyebrows - though committee spokesman Jamal Ware said the report was bipartisan and was begun before Fleitz joined the staff...
...Frederick Mosteller, the founder of the Harvard’s Statistics Department, died of sepsis on July 23 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church, Virginia. He was 89.Mosteller first came to Harvard in 1946 as a professor in the Department of Social Relations, and he remained on the faculty of the University for the rest of his academic career. He helped found the Stats department in 1957, and in doing so, helped distinguish statistics as a distinct field of study across academia. As its first chair, he led the department for over a decade.“When...
...human genome was first sequenced using an updated version of a method developed in the 1970s by Frederick Sanger. That method, while reliable and accurate, is also expensive and time-consuming. To mitigate the cost, some companies are currently using sequencing-by-synthesis methods, including the base extension method and Church’s preferred ligation method...