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...Economics and the Inevitable," by David Ignatius in The Washington Post "My superstars at Davos this year are the university presidents. Larry Summers at Harvard, Rick Levin at Yale, Lee Bollinger at Columbia and a half-dozen more are transforming their universities into global institutions -- seeking the best students from around the world and sending them to far-flung places to learn the skills that will secure them places among the global elite. 'We want the brilliant mathematician whose mother is a chambermaid in Romania,' says Summers...
...least once weekly.” He nevertheless feels that the OFA “is great at supporting classical music on an amateur level”.Francesca Anderegg mentions the invaluable benefit of having an active concert artist like Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68 on campus as one of the highlights in her Harvard musical experience. However, she notes that there are virtually no other concert artists on Harvard’s faculty, and that Levin’s performance schedule means his presence is “necessarily limited...
...Summers, Hennesy, Hockfield, and Tilghman, the other presidents to sign yesterday’s statement were: CalTech’s David Baltimore, UC Berkeley’s Robert Birgeneau, UMich’s Mary Sue Coleman, UPenn’s Amy Gutmann, and Yale’s Richard C. Levin. Levin faced protests from graduate students on his campus last February for not condemning Summers’ remarks on women in science. —ZACHARY M. SEWARD
...looking for. Friends interviewed for this story defined him as much by his partying as his piano skills. At Harvard, Yuan was able to have more fun, but he did not give up piano. He practices between four and five hours a day, working with Professor of Music Robert Levin ’68, a pianist with an international reputation who has been his teacher and mentor for the last four years. Yuan has also performed with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and last summer he went on a world tour. He is, according to fellow musician Brettman, the Harvard pianist...
...wants to get a second opinion on how the war in Iraq is going, where does he turn? To the Pentagon, but not to the top brass this time. In an unusual closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill last week, Virginia's John Warner, joined by Democratic Senators Carl Levin of Michigan and Mark Dayton of Minnesota, sat across the table from 10 military officers chosen for their experience on the battlefield rather than in the political arena. Warner rounded up the battalion commanders to get at what the military calls "ground truth"--the unvarnished story of what's going...