Word: peeters
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Wednesday 6--In a major fundraising coup, Kennedy School Dean Graham Allison secures a pledge of $2.5 million from New York philanthropist J. Rodney Peeter. The money is slated to fund a new mid-career program for middle-aged, unemployed political scientists. In a statement released today, President Derek C. Bok announces that Peeter's gift was conditioned on his being offered a University post commensurate with the size of the unprecedented donation and that Peeter would replace Allison as K-School dean effective immediately...
Tuesday, 26--The Kennedy School announces that former Dean Graham Allison today will become the first unemployed, middle-aged political scientist to be awarded a fellowship to study at the new Peeter Program for Unemployed, Middle-Aged Political Scientists. "As a firm beliver and beneficiary of the Peter Principle," Allison says. "I am grateful for this opportunity to live for a semester off of Peeter's principal...