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...affair. The setting? A typical recruiting luncheon for Harvard undergrads, given by leading financial firms like Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. Harvard students are well-known for flocking to investment banking and consulting firms following graduation, and it’s hard to turn down companies that throw such lavish events for students. Originally hailing from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, graduates often leave Harvard to concentrate in the financial centers of New York City and London rather than returning to their places of origin. The phenomenon is called “brain drain”; disadvantaged...
...earliest year for which data is provided by The Chronicle. His salary has been donated to religious organizations. Derek C. Bok also declined pay when he served as interim president of Harvard last year. In the past, Bok has spoken out against rising presidential salaries. “Lavish compensation can hurt a university by undermining the effectiveness of campus leadership,” he wrote in a 2002 piece in The Chronicle. Bok could not be reached for comment yesterday. The Chronicle’s survey, based on data from 949 universities over the 2006 fiscal year, breaks down...
...been seen in public since June, had turned his company into something of a personal piggy bank; they accuse him of misappropriation and aggravated breach of trust. (Sahashi's representative has filed a petition rebutting these allegations.) On Oct. 30, the lawyers invited reporters to check out Sahashi's lavish office at the company's Osaka headquarters, complete with a fully stocked wet bar and a hidden bedroom and sauna. "I wanted to show the extent of his misdeeds," said attorney Toshiaki Higashibata, who organized the event...
...similar bill, and a reform effort led by Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana seems likely to meet a similar fate. The Bush Administration has made noises about a veto; Kind says the President, famously reluctant to admit mistakes, confided in a private chat that he regrets signing the lavish 2002 bill. But it's never wise to bet against the farm lobby, which spent $135 million on lobbying and donations last year and brilliantly portrays opponents as enemies of the heartland of America. "The game is always the same," says Oxfam America's Jim Lyons, a former U.S. Agriculture Under...
While they may have shored up her base, the traveling and the glamor opened Fernandez de Kirchner up to ridicule among her rivals for the presidency. Said Carrio during the campaign: "Eva was a political heroine, a real queen, not a Botox queen." Several took on Cristina's lavish makeup, hair extensions, heavy jewelry and constant wardrobe changes. Says an Argentine journalist and long-time observer of Fernandez, "She was more real as a person when she was a lowly Senator. Now she has transformed herself completely...