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...Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, female undergraduates no longer received diplomas signed by both presidents.Shauna L. Shames ’01, now at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and an intern at the Women’s Center, was an undergraduate at the time of the merger. She remembers the push for a Women’s Center that followed Radcliffe’s break from the undergraduate community. “Harvard had never had to deal with the needs of specifically the female undergraduates, because Radcliffe was always there,” says Shames, an early...
...supplement the subsidies for distillation, a move that is furiously contested by some, including Delpeuch, who argues that it makes no sense to encourage bad wine to be made in the first place. And it's no easy task persuading proud villages to give up their names; one planned merger between the Moulis and Listrac appellations fell through in 2002 when the authorities in Moulis got cold feet. Still, for Bordeaux, this all amounts to a sea change in attitude. "Ten years ago, if the head of the CIVB had said we'll grub up vines, somebody would have...
...links, photos and videos. Others focus on music, travel or online software. One challenge is knowing when to sell. MySpace was sold last year to News Corp. for $580 million, a figure a MySpace founder who no longer had control of the company recently called "one of the largest merger-and-acquisition scandals in U.S. history." MySpace might be worth more than $3 billion today. YouTube gained first-mover advantage with its video-sharing service. But the latest crop of Web 2.0 outfits employs varying strategies to cut past the crowd...
Discrimination has a long and hoary tradition at Harvard. At first, students were all white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and male. Eventually, men of other faiths were admitted, as were men of color. Finally, with the merger of Radcliffe, women became full members of the Harvard community. In the past decade, the changes have accelerated; the advent of affirmative action has made diversity of every form a goal of most universities.As it should be. But while we firmly believe that a diverse campus is a strong campus, a new frontier has been reached that deserves further scrutiny—affirmative action...
...Harvard.“It’s going to become a cliché, but one of the many things Joe has done is continually remind people of the potential benefits of working together,” HCNR Director Adrian J. Ivinson said.Martin managed Harvard’s merger with the Dana-Farber Cancer Insitute in 1999. The move brought together more than 800 Harvard faculty and received a $50 million grant from the National Cancer Institute. In a similar vein, the Martin administration drove the development of the Harvard Clinical Research Institute, which funnels investments from businesses...