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...ARRESTED. Yoshiaki Murakami, 46, outspoken Japanese fund manager and corporate raider; on charges of insider trading; in Tokyo. Known for his confrontational attitude and Western-style shareholder activism, Murakami is accused of making over $26 million by buying shares of media firm Nippon Broadcasting System, allegedly with the knowledge that it was the target of a takeover bid by Internet company Livedoor. In a televised news conference last week, Murakami said that he "didn't mean to break the law," noting that while he had "heard" about the bid, he didn't believe Livedoor would carry it out. If convicted...
...premature death. Billy's head bobbing, they contend, is typical of elephants in distress and probably results from an inadequate physical environment. "I've come to the conclusion after many years that it is simply not possible for zoos to meet the needs of elephants," asserts David Hancocks, an outspoken zoo consultant and former director of the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle...
...Fast-forward one year. You pass [outspoken critic and Weary Professor of Germanic Language and Literature] Judith Ryan in the halls of the Barker Center. What happens? LHS: I hope and trust we’re all looking forwards, not backwards. History judges us all not on what we were against, but on what we were for. I hope all of us in the University will find a way to provide a much better experience than we have in the past for the undergraduates who are both the lost children and the lifeblood of great research universities...
...more astonishing because Harper had been seen as a “team player in every way,” says anthropologist and outspoken Summers critic J. Lorand Matory...
...between Summers and professors, who were still seething a month after the president’s comments on women in science. Faculty members shot down Knowles’ proposal, calling it undemocratic and prearranged.But Harry R. Lewis ’68, dean of the College under Knowles and an outspoken critic of Summers, on Monday called Bok’s decision “a great appointment.”“There is no one who understands Harvard better, or would work longer hours, with greater integrity, to help get Harvard back on its feet...