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...Charles H. “Chuck” Turner ’62, a member of the Boston City Council, was arrested on Friday morning on charges of corruption and lying to federal agents, according to a statement from the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office. Turner, a Kirkland House alumnus, is accused of accepting a $1000 payment in August 2007 from a person looking to obtain a liquor license for a proposed club in Roxbury called “Dejavu”. The meeting was caught on hidden video, according to an affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent...
...year on the UC. He is the Leverett HoCo social chair, and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship as well as the Black Students Association. He has also participated in “On Harvard Time.” The other end of his ticket is Max H. Y. Wong ’10, an Eliot resident who has been an advocate of Administrative Board reform, which has recently been a top priority for the UC. The field is rounded out by two humorous tickets. The presidential candidate for one ticket is Roger G. Waite...
Democratic sources say President-elect Barack Obama will name former University President Lawrence H. Summers director of the National Economic Council—essentially the president’s senior economic advisor—according to news reports this weekend. Once a top contender to be Obama’s Treasury secretary, Summers, who led the Treasury under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, will be advising the president on both domestic and foreign economic policy. He will likely be working closely with Obama’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Federal Bank of New York President Timothy F. Geithner...
...various student organizations that have sponsored this event can do something substantive,” he said. Among the sponsoring organizations was the Harvard College Global Hunger Initiative, a new club to which Juma is an adviser. Founded by Eshwan Ramudu ’10 and Sarah H. Nam ’10, the organization hopes to increase agricultural sustainability through technology. “I think one of the greatest challenges in development is the disparity in technology” between nations, said Nam. Other campus groups also hope to see students come together on this issue...
...verbalized a distinction between Asian and American style, her ability to blend East and West seamlessly in her design aesthetic suggests that perhaps the divide between the two isn’t as great as she and Narumi initially intimated. After all, Narumi listed Marc Jacobs, Abercrombie, and H&M among her favorite brands—just like any other teenage girl in America. —Columnist Victoria D. Sung can be reached at vsung@fas.harvard.edu...