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...Harvard, Franklin has gotten off to a good start in that department. Friends credit him with an ability to bring people together—and inspire them. “He’s comfortable with himself,” says Jay Bacrania ’05. “He’s really able to engage with other people without passing judgment. It’s an inspiration to everyone...
...stands, the lack of confidence induced by both rejection and poor advising can have an overwhelming effect, and all too often does. Disproportionately affected are minority students. In the New York City class of 1998, according to a report published by Jay P. Greene at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, only 42 percent of African American students and 45 percent of Latino students graduated—compared to 80 percent of their white peers. Furthermore, nationally, according to The Times, barely a quarter of all black men between 18 and 24 are enrolled in college...
...meet that saw the Crimson (0-1) win only one match by decision and one by forfeit in a 39-9 loss, Harvard head coach Jay Weiss acknowledged that the team “didn’t look [its] best” in the home opener, but noted the difficulty of going against a top team so early in the season...
...Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris said that the two arguments for Harvard College Courses—that study has become increasingly interdisciplinary and that the College must pull professors out of their disciplines—are contradictory...
...DIED. JAY VAN ANDEL, 80, billionaire co-founder of direct-sales behemoth Amway; in Ada, Michigan. With his childhood friend Richard DeVos, Van Andel founded the company in the pair's basements in 1959 and built it into a worldwide network of individual distributors who sold cosmetics and furniture polish and earned a cut for recruiting others. In the 1970s the U.S. government investigated Amway, suspecting it was a pyramid scheme, but the charges were never proved. In 2000, Amway became part of a larger sales and business-services company, Alticor Inc., formed by Van Andel's and DeVos' families...