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...With reporting by Jeanne McDowell and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles
Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 will leave Harvard this summer to accept a teaching appointment at Columbia University, a position which he has said will allow him to better coordinate his activities as special advisor to the U.N.’s Millennium Development Goals...
...Internet Movie Database identifies Herb Jeffries as being of "Ethiopian-French Canadian-Italian & Irish descent," and notes that one of his five wives was the stripper Tempest Storm. Jeffries was a mellow baritone; he had sung with Cab Calloway. On screen, as Herbert Jeffrey, he became the smoothest cowboy west of Sugar Hill in four sagebrush sing-a-longs made in the late 30s at a black-owned California ranch. As Bogle observes, Jeffries and his light-skinned leading ladies were the "whites" in these films; the supporting roles were taken by dark-skinned comics like Mantan Moreland...
...first answer is that people in the “Real World”—at least, those who read the Times—care when men of brilliance and distinction like West or Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs ’76 or Carswell Professor of Afro-American Studies and of Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah leave Harvard. The particular Ivy League name they bear is newsworthy in the same way as a Scottie Pippen trade. The second answer is that people in the “Real World” are attracted to controversy...
Such incentive trusts are a hot topic in estate-planning circles, in which the issue of how to leave money behind without ruining your heirs is getting almost as much attention as tax planning. In Beyond the Grave, authors Gerald and Jeffrey Condon argue that incentives don't work. "True character cannot be molded by money," they write. "You cannot salvage by inheritance what you fear you have not accomplished during your life." But others endorse incentive trusts as a useful way to motivate silver-spoon heirs. "Provide a resource, not an entitlement," says Joanne Johnson, a wealth-adviser manager...