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...University also presented a doctorate in music to composer Leon Kirchner, and doctorate in law to philosopher Jürgen Habermas, economist Alice M. Rivlin, commencement speaker Rubin, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 and former Harvard Fellow Richard A. Smith...
...into Neil Leon Rudenstine a week or so ago. He is a dude from less-than-scenic Danbury, Connecticut whose dad was a prison guard and whose mom, to the best of my knowledge, worked as a waitress her whole life. He, Neil, is also the President of Harvard University, the head of the most prestigious educational institution in the world, and, if the pursuit of knowledge is the most noble of human aspirations (as many sages have suggested) then he has the most significant position on the face of the earth...
John L. Ashbery '49, Ela R. Bhatt, Geoffrey Canada, Jürgen Habermas, Isabella L. Karle, Leon Kirchner, Alice M. Rivlin, Robert E. Rubin '60, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, Richard A. Smith and Charles H. Townes will receive the degrees...
...LEON KIRCHNER...
DIED. THE REV. LEON SULLIVAN, 78, forceful civil rights leader and Baptist pastor credited with helping end apartheid in South Africa; of leukemia; in Scottsdale, Ariz. In 1977, after becoming the first black director on the General Motors board, he framed the Sullivan Principles, a code for U.S. companies operating in South Africa outlining how they could desegregate workplaces and promote fair treatment of black employees. At age 10, Sullivan was booted from a Charleston, W.Va., drugstore counter while drinking a soda, an incident that inspired him as an adult to organize boycotts of racist companies. In 1964, he founded...