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...resignation. At least three other substantial gifts were cancelled, including $100 million from publisher and real-estate tycoon Mortimer Zuckerman, $100 million from former Harvard Corporation member Richard A. Smith ’46, and $75 million from banker David Rockefeller ’36, The Wall Street Journal reported in July...
Harvard has faced some tough press recently on the admissions front. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel L. Golden ’78 released a book last week entitled “The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates,” which criticizes Ivy League schools such as Harvard for employing anti-meritocratic admissions practices...
...paper published in February in the International Journal of Epidemiology, Campos and others reviewed what medicine knows about how fat-or adiposity-is supposed to cause disease. They concluded that with the exception of osteoarthritis, where increased weight contributes to wear on joints, and a few cancers where estrogen originating in fat tissue may play a role, "causal links between body fat and disease remain hypothetical." They cite a recent U.S. study that found women who'd had an average of 10 kg of fat removed by liposuction had no improvements in health markers over the next three months...
Powers, the media critic for National Journal magazine, will investigate ‘the death of paper’ and its implications for media content...
...director at financial conglomerate Citigroup Inc. might appear to clash with his duties at Ford as the automaker’s board undertakes an internal strategic review. Earlier this summer, Ford hired Citigroup and investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to advise the struggling automaker, The Wall Street Journal reported in August...