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...back on our time as the era of a life sciences revolution and an age of rapid globalization. These ideas resonated with idealistic students set on making their mark on the world and with the public at large, which still had not relinquished its view of Harvard as the Kremlin on the Charles. To those ends, Summers began to mobilize Harvard’s considerable resources. The University is primed to become the life sciences epicenter of the world with planned facilities in Allston leading the way. Just this week, the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, formed under Summers?...
...DISMISSED. Vladimir Ustinov, 53, Russia's long-serving chief prosecutor, by the upper house of parliament at the request of President Vladimir Putin; in Moscow. The Federation Council voted unanimously, bar two abstentions, to remove the man who led the prosecution of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Kremlin has offered little explanation, saying only that it was part of a personnel reshuffle. Ustinov's is the latest in a spate of dismissals of high-level security and law-enforcement officials...
...suggested that Harvard was a haven for communist influences that intended the destruction of American values. The fervor became so prevalent that the post office promptly delivered to the office of then-University President Nathan M. Pusey ’28 any letter addressed to “Kremlin on the Charles.” Undergraduates faced the prospect of having to demonstrate their “Americanism” in order to qualify for entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background investigations for future civil servants, and “character and fitness?...
...height of the McCarthy period, even though it was on its decline,” says David I. Halberstam ’55, former managing editor of The Crimson.KREMLIN ON THE CHARLESMcCarthy focused his efforts on Harvard, nicknamed “the Kremlin on the Charles.” Though the hearings were a distant reality for most undergraduates, Kamin, a graduate student employed by the Harvard Corporation as a teaching fellow, was vulnerable to the Red Scare.“McCarthy maintained that he was not investigating Harvard, but that since his committee franchise included oversight of defense plants...
...their Harvard diplomas, they are shoo-ins for the upper middle class, and many will climb even higher. So what’s the problem? With all this upward mobility—as a matter of statistical certainty—many of today’s residents of the Kremlin on the Charles will wake up not too long from now as (gasp) Republicans...