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...departure from the Corporation represented a “great sacrifice in terms of the role he could play in shaping the future direction of the University,” he remains “in some ways even more committed to Harvard,” serving as a mentor for many Law School graduates as they seek careers in corporate law or public service...
...abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Now, Bakshi is headed home to Washington, D.C., where he is working for The Washington Post as well as for the D.C. School Board. But oceans away in India and in Zimbabwe, Aina continues its work. That, says Bakshi’s mentor, D.C. School Board President Peggy C. Cafritz, is “the greatest testament to Amar.”FREE TO ROOMIt’s been 63 years since Harvard men and Radcliffe women began taking classes side by side. It’s been more than three decades since...
Corporation Fellow Robert E. Rubin ’60, Summers’ trusted mentor and predecessor as U.S. Treasury secretary, tried to salvage his protégé’s position. In the days after the Feb. 7 Faculty meeting, he focused his discussion to officials at non-FAS schools, including Law School Dean Elena Kagan...
...life.”These are issues that can be traced back to classes he took as an undergraduate, Cuse says. He took a seminar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee professor of social ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy, Cuse had “Lost” character Sawyer read Percy’s “Lancelot” while sitting...
...Galbraith himself share their memories of the former Paul M. Warburg professor of economics emeritus. After a welcome by incoming Harvard President Derek C. Bok, the prolific author’s son James K. Galbraith ’74 spoke first, calling his father “my mentor, my coach, my critic, and my friend.” Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who spoke towards the end of the service, also touched on Galbraith’s wisdom and good advice, mentioning how important his support had been to his father John F. Kennedy?...