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...court recent events were indeed "unforeseeable and unforeseen", Nicholas Mostyn, representing Myerson's ex-wife, hit back that "the present downturn was totally foreseeable and indeed well under way" at the time of the couple's settlement a year ago. Moreover, Mostyn argued, as a fund manager, Brian Myerson knew as well as anyone that shares can go up as well as well as down. "He agreed in exchange for having a majority of the assets to assume the risk," Mostyn argued. "It is too late now for him to try and unpick that deal...
...When the Quad incident happened, I didn’t believe HUPD racially profiled us because I knew many of the officers personally and knew they do not do that,” he said. “But I understand a lot of students didn’t know the officers as well...
...Cognizant of the lengthy parade of speakers before him, Bernstein let the audience vote on whether they wanted to hear his speech; they voted him down. Seizing the moment, Gilbert and a few of his friends personally begged Bernstein to come give the speech at Adams House. Bernstein, who knew Gilbert’s parents as violinists in the Philharmonic, agreed on two conditions: the attendance of then President Derek Bok and two bottles of Scotch. Reminiscing about the magic of his experiences at Harvard, Gilbert remarked, “it feels as though it could only happen here...
...tell us more about her career as a ballerina. The Harvard Crimson (THC): Tell me about your transition from Japan to New York, before Boston.Misa Kuranaga (MK): It was a little bit of a shock. It was definitely different. My training in Japan was very classical. Of course I knew [Balanchine’s, a famous choreographer’s] work, like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the big stuff, but I had no idea how it should look, since I had never seen NYCB. I went first to San Francisco as an apprentice...
...politician himself, like so many other Japanese leaders (including that other maverick, Koizumi) he entered the Diet when he was just 27. Michael Green, chairman of Japan research at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, who knew Ozawa more than 20 years ago, remembers him back then as a traditional politician "focused on bringing home the bacon" to his constituency in Iwate prefecture in northeastern Honshu. His mentors include both Kakuei Tanaka, Prime Minister from 1972 to 1974, who treated Ozawa like a son and arranged his marriage, and Shin Kanemaru, who served as Deputy Prime Minister...