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When police came to Nguyen Van Dai's door on Feb. 8, the Vietnamese human-rights lawyer thought he was in for a routine questioning session. After all, police had summoned the high-profile dissident at least five times in the previous six months to grill him about his educational seminars on democracy. But this time was different. Dai was taken to his local People's Committee, where about 200 murmuring citizens were waiting to denounce him for crimes against society. One by one, members of the audience, most of them elderly, shuffled to the microphone to criticize...
When Dana Hale adopted her son four years ago, she says she had to "play hardball" with her boss to get the same paid leave granted colleagues who give birth. The Washington employment lawyer knew then that if she and her self-employed husband adopted again, it would be under new management. So Hale began researching adoption-friendly workplaces, and soon focused on Capital One. The big financial-services company, headquartered in McLean, Va., offers $5,000 in assistance per adopted child, plus six weeks of paid leave. More important to Hale, the company fosters a supportive culture for adoptive...
...National Bureau of Economic Research. The crisis in Mass. Hall only worsened in the months before Keohane took office. When she officially joined the Corporation that June, Summers had already lost a Faculty of Arts and Sciences no-confidence vote. And just four weeks after she took office, lawyer Conrad K. Harper abruptly resigned his seat on the Corporation, saying he could “no longer support President Summers...
Harper, the Corporation’s first African-American member and a prominent lawyer, served as a catalyst in the downfall of the president he helped select...
...fellow of the Corporation and chairman of glassworks company Corning Inc., headed the presidential search committee, joined by former Vassar president Frances D. Fergusson, computer science professor Susan L. Graham ’64, former Duke and Wellesley president Nannerl O. Keohane, Georgetown Law professor Patricia A. King, Boston lawyer William F. Lee ’72, economist Robert D. Reischauer, University Treasurer James F. Rothenberg ’68, and Citigroup chairman Robert E. Rubin ’60, a former Treasury secretary and close friend of Summers...