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...West’s discussion of his dispute with Summers is particularly timely because tensions between Summers and the African and African-American Studies Department resurfaced recently when two Harvard Af-Am professors, Lawrence Bobo and his wife Marcyliena Morgan, announced they will leave Harvard at the end of the fall semester to take up tenured positions at Stanford. Their departure has been attributed by colleagues to the fact that Summers denied Morgan tenure at Harvard this past summer...
...have a wonderfully warm, direct and honest relationship,” Gates said in September after Morgan and Bobo announced their imminent departure. “While we do not always agree, I believe that we respect each other’s opinions...
...After years of surprisingly strong growth, Asian economies are slowing down. In October, Morgan Stanley downgraded its 2005 GDP growth forecast for the region (excluding Japan) to 5.5%, compared with 7.2% in 2004. The main culprits are the record-high price of oil, an expected weakening of the U.S. economy and an ailing dollar, which makes Asian products more expensive for U.S. consumers and curbs export growth. But a new factor putting the brakes on Asia is China. Over the past two years, soaring demand from China for everything from steel to palm oil to semiconductors has been the engine...
Final clubs—whose members have included at least three former U.S. presidents as well as notables like T.S. Eliot and J.P. Morgan, Jr.—became havens for the wealthy and soon-to-be powerful in the late 1800s...
Street Creds: Joined Corning in 1962; member of board of directors of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Exxon Mobil Corporation; trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pierpont Morgan Library and the Corning Museum of Glass...