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For Quaker Oats, Snapple soft drinks have been proving hard to swallow. Quaker paid $1.7 billion for Snapple in 1994, only to watch the acquisition lose $100 million in 1995. Quaker's stock has fallen from $37.50 to $33 in the past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO...
But conservative gadfly Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 was less forgiving. Instead of soft praise from the Faculty, Rudenstine quickly found himself on the defensive as Mansfield led a small group of conservatives in attacking the president for committing Harvard's prestige to the defense of affirmative action.
I emerged no longer diffident about lining up incorrectly with conventional career categories. By inclination I'm a writer and painter; I got into computer science because of the talmudic injunction to learn a useful trade and support your wife and family. Shoemaking was more what the rabbis had in...
Rarely these days does Harvard praise its tradition, and it is welcome to see some respect for the good done by dead white males, but in this case (as often happens), tradition is praised so as to cover a departure from it. Affirmative action is not the continuation of a...
As the lawyers geared up for their opening arguments, even the casual Court TV viewer could see that the defense lawyers were locked in a tense standoff. Lucky Shapiro gets to be the first to offer a narrative of the power grabbing and camera hogging by the unruly Dream Teamers...