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...dragged around the field? Probably only Handsome Dan, and the mascot would surely be all the happier to skip the exercise. Maybe we could also finally stop hearing about Aleksey Vayner. It is so tiring when it is that easy to make fun of someone. Yale University President Richard Levin could finally retire on his yacht. After making all that money—on the highest presidential salary among the Ivies—he surely deserves a break. Not that he didn’t deserve the compensation, of course; garbage collectors also make a pretty nice living. And don?...
...senior at New York University, Ira Levin placed second in a CBS screenplay competition, pretty much the last time he was edged out of the top spot. He followed his first, Edgar-winning novel, A Kiss Before Dying, with such iconic horror-thriller mega-best sellers as Rosemary's Baby, The Boys from Brazil and The Stepford Wives and later wrote the long-running 1978 Broadway hit Deathtrap. Levin...
...fiscal year was $611,226, higher only than the salary of Dartmouth’s James E. Wright. University spokesman John Longbrake declined to comment on current University President Drew G. Faust’s salary but noted that Harvard will next release compensation details in May. Richard C. Levin, the president of Yale, was the highest paid Ivy league chief in 2005-2006, earning $869,026. But salaries for Ivy League presidents are not the highest in the country. Baylor College of Medicine President Peter G. Traber earned $1,355,212, making him the top earning university president...
...Christian community.” Former recipients of the Freedom of Worship Medal include Coretta Scott King and Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust scholar and Nobel laureate. Last night’s ceremony, held at the Chelsea Piers complex on the West Side of Manhattan, also honored Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard G. Lugar, (R-Ind.), TV journalist Bill Moyers, author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich, and former national security advisor Brent Scowcroft...
...favors economic sanctions against Iran as an alternative to doing nothing, but it was a nonbinding, symbolic resolution that could be construed as supporting Bush in another foolish crusade. The economic sanctions will happen anyway. Clinton then pointed to other Senators - people like Jack Reed, Dick Durbin and Carl Levin - who had voted against the Iraq war and yet supported the resolution, but that's the sort of argument you make when you can't convincingly explain your own actions. My guess is that she's taking political cover on Iran. Clinton's actual foreign policy positions haven't been...