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Caspar W. Weinberger ’38, a former Crimson president who served as secretary of defense to President Reagan and oversaw the nation’s massive peacetime defense buildup in the Cold War’s twilight years, died Tuesday of pneumonia and kidney ailments. He was 88.Weinberger, who died at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor with his wife of 63 years, Jane, by his side, had served as chairman of Forbes Inc. until his death.A major force in California’s Republican Party during the 1960s, Weinberger held three major posts in Washington the following...
...PAUL TAGLIABUE, 65, as commissioner of the National Football League, whose solid relationship with the Players Association facilitated a landmark 1992 collective-bargaining agreement considered a team-sports model that balanced free agency with a salary cap; in New York City. During his 17-year tenure, the unflappable Tagliabue oversaw the addition of four teams and the creation of the league's TV network...
...joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1964 and was named dean 15 years later, according to the press release. In 1982 he left for the University of Iowa where he served as president for five years. As president of Dartmouth from 1987 to 1998, Freedman oversaw an extensive curricular review, the most successful capital campaign in the school’s history, and a large expansion in facilities, according to the press release. Freedman is also the author of several books, and his autobiography will be published posthumously, Halberstam said. Freedman is survived by his wife...
...chief of U.S. Central Command, General Franks, now retired, oversaw the invasion of Iraq...
...Harvard University Art Museums (HUAM) recently announced a multi-year plan to overhaul its museums and to stake a claim in the University’s new campus across the Charles River in Allston. Cabot Museums Director Thomas W. Lentz oversaw the project and sought to incorporate feedback from numerous faculty members and students in the History of Art and Architecture department, as well as from Harvard officials responsible for the planning and development of the new campus. Under Lentz’s scrutiny, HUAM plans to renovate its historic building on 32 Quincy St., which currently houses both...