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When Harvard.edu account holders complete the free registration process, they are given their own home page that features everything from a personalized daily planner to highlights of blogs that have recently mentioned their name. A “Blogcrastinate” button at the top of every page swiftly diverts the user to a completely random blog, and a “Campus Chatter” feature identifies the most common words and phrases showing up in posts. Just before the official launch, “campus chatter” was preoccupied with outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, Chuck...
After every spectacular government failure comes an acronym-laden, bullet-pointed report. The bigger the failure, the longer the report. Last week, a congressional committee issued a 520-page study of the government?s response to Hurricane Katrina titled "A Failure of Initiative." Today, the White House issued its own, 228-page report, entitled, a tad more diplomatically, "Lessons Learned." While the White House report avoids castigating individual actors (read: Michael Brown or Michael Chertoff), this debrief is just as sweeping...
University President Lawrence H. Summers is expected to resign in advance of next Tuesday's full Faculty meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported on page A3 this morning, citing two anonymous sources "familiar with the situation...
...found liable for combined penalties of nearly $30 million in 2004 after they were charged with defrauding a U.S. government program designed to help Harvard economists privatize the Russian economy in the 1990s. The scandal has long been considered one of Harvard?s darker hours, but a new 28-page expos? by investigative reporter David McClintick, published in the January 2006 issue of Institutional Investor magazine, brought new heat on Summers, whom the article describes as going out of his way to protect his old friend and prot?g? Schleifer, who is still a senior faculty member at the university...
...planning for operations was at an "early stage" according to a Justice Department official, who said "Don't clear the front page for it," but [the case is] "pretty significant." When asked if there was a connection to Toledo charity KindHearts, that had its assets frozen by the Treasury Department on Feb. 19 for alleged ties to Hamas, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales demurred. "What I can say is that they're separate investigations," he said. "They also happen to be coordinated investigations." A Justice Department official went further: "The investigations have some nexus," he said, adding that the three...