Word: joneses
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Andrei Shleifer ’82, the prominent Harvard economist who found himself at the center of a rare ethics investigation for his alleged role in defrauding the U.S. government, appears to have been stripped of his endowed title as the Jones Professor of Economics, according to an updated listing...
Beginning on Friday, Shleifer was identified only as a “Professor of Economics” at Harvard, though his personal website remained unchanged. Previously, he had occupied the more prestigious, endowed chair as the Whipple VanNess Jones professor. It was unclear whether the demotion would correspond with a...
Shleifer’s former title honored Whipple Jones, the founder of the Aspen Highlands Skiing Corporation in Colorado who gave Harvard stock that was sold for $18.3 million in 1994.
British actor Tobey Jones steps in to play Truman Capote, joined by a frumpified Sandra Bullock as Harper Lee.
But while McGrath draws excellent performances from Jones and Bullock—who captures Lee’s own anxiety at being unable to produce a work to rival “To Kill a Mockingbird”—the film is otherwise uneven. Spliced throughout are interviews?...