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...Patrick Henry, who were slave owners all. Then again, so was Lord Dunmore, the last Royal Governor of Virginia and the man who first made the offer of freedom for military service. Schama's book, nuanced, fair-minded and beautifully written, does not pretend that the British, who oversaw their own brutal slave economy in the Caribbean, operated with clean hands. But for American slaves, the prospect of continued bondage in an independent America was no choice...
...Thrifty Big Spender Caspar Weinberger, who died March 28, earned the nickname "Cap the Knife" for slashing budgets in the Nixon and Ford administrations. But TIME's July 27, 1981, cover story explained how, as President Ronald Reagan's Defense Secretary, Weinberger oversaw the rebuilding of the U.S. military-a project that cost a record $2 trillion...
...dean and director of planning and development under Clark.Summers said at the press conference that Light “embodies what is best about the Harvard Business School.”During Light’s nine-month term as the Business School’s acting dean, he oversaw the completion of a $600 million capital campaign, renovations of the campus, and the inauguration of its fifth international research center—in Mumbai, India. He also terminated the school’s grade non-disclosure policy.C.D. “Dick” Spangler Jr., the entrepreneur and donor...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, who oversaw the selection of the “fun czar,” said he was impressed with this year’s applicant pool...
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...