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Before accepting Harvard’s offer, Donato spoke with friend and Bruins teammate Dave Poulin, who similarly returned to his alma mater, Notre Dame, from the NHL as head coach despite having no prior experience behind the bench. Poulin has had just one winning season since taking over the Fighting Irish...
DIED. ROBERT TEETER, 65, gentlemanly but tough G.O.P. pollster; of cancer; in Ann Arbor, Mich. After a stint coaching football at his alma mater, Albion College, he helped guide the campaigns of four Republican Presidents, beginning with Richard Nixon in 1968. A pioneer in the use of focus groups and daily tracking polls, he proposed Dan Quayle as former President Bush's running mate in 1988. Four years later, as the team's campaign chair-man, he drew much of the blame for its failed re-election bid from critics who said he had underestimated the strength of rival Patrick...
...advisors in Iraq, the training for the country's critical new force is still patchy. That will finally catch up, says Petraeus. Meanwhile, gleaming new weapons and ceramic-plated vests will boost the officers' morale. This time around, Petraeus is also using a cherished principle from his other alma mater, West Point: Stand by your fellow soldiers, no matter what. "They have to feel they are not going to be hung out to dry," he says of the new Iraqi forces. "Early on we are going to have to keep on enabling Iraqi forces and backing them up when necessary...
...honors us with his presence tonight,” he said. “He brings honor to his alma mater, not just through the beauty he promotes but through the understanding and passion for art that he brings...
Such a disappointing result is the rather unsurprising product of a one-year process conducted behind closed doors and largely driven by the narrow-minded agenda of a University President who, to judge by his repetitive gene-chromosome rhetoric, seems intent on turning Harvard into his alma mater, MIT. (Oddly enough, the sciences may well lose the most under the proposed revisions: a delayed concentration decision, “mandatory” study abroad and decreased field-of-study requirements will do no favors for undergraduate science concentrators.) Lawrence H. Summers—whose comments on undergraduate education at last...