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...been volatile, and that’s what they thrive on,” said Howard Kapiloff, Managing Editor of Hedge Fund Alert, a weekly publication that reported on Convexity’s shortcomings in early January. Meyer declined to comment for this story. —Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...extract his wife, mother-in-law and daughters from Nazi-occupied Holland. For nine months, they tried to secure visas - first to the U.S. and then to Cuba - until that window shut. Just three letters of the file were written by Otto Frank, all addressed to university friend Nathan Straus Jr., son of a co-owner of Macy's department store and head of the U.S. Housing Authority. Straus and Frank's brother-in-law, Julius Hollander, regularly corresponded with two private Jewish agencies, the National Refugee Service in New York and the Boston Committee for Refugees. Straus also contacted...
...Conant out—his mother said he couldn’t spell—Harvard invited him in. Until 1953, the chemist and self-made man would promote the sciences, standardization, and academic scholarships, and often worked off-campus on the Manhattan Project. Conant’s successor Nathan M. Pusey ’28, had a strong presence at Harvard, and not just for academic reasons. An August 8, 1953 headline from the Boston Globe stated that, according to the “girls,” Pusey was “the best-looking head ever...
...Staff writer Nathan C. Strauss can be reached at strauss@fas.harvard.edu...
...according to Andrew B. Schlesinger ’70, author of “Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience.” “You only hear about the Overseers when they do something exceptional,” he said yesterday, citing the 1953 election of Nathan M. Pusey ’28 when two overseers—J. Robert Oppenheimer ’25 and Joseph Alsop ’32—opposed Pusey’s candidacy. Unanimity is generally expected, Schlesinger said. In the last presidential search, Lawrence H. Summers also gained unanimous...