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...Harvard Business School graduate touched off a new round of speculation that Romney was burnishing his conservative credentials ahead of a possible run for president in 2008. But they also underscored what has long been a marquee role for Harvard on the national scene—a premier punching bag for politicians of all persuasions...
...black studies concentration, Princeton is only now following in its Cambridge rival’s footsteps.The New Jersey school is establishing a new Center for African American Studies and expanding its faculty in the field from 5 to 11—challenging Harvard’s position as the premier hub of black studies. On Monday, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman announced plans for the university to expand its African American studies program and contribute to the “quest to achieve racial equality and understand the impact of race on the life and institutions of the United States...
...Countering the critics, China's Premier Wen Jiabao insisted that Beijing "will ensure the freedom and the rights of the foreign news media and foreign financial-information agencies." But alarm bells are nonetheless sounding in foreign boardrooms. In the past few months, Beijing has issued several regulations and is drafting more that appear to be aimed at limiting the ability of overseas firms to do business in China. Last week, China's stock-market regulator temporarily banned investment by foreign brokerages in domestic securities firms, citing the need to allow the local industry to consolidate so that Chinese firms would...
...says Fran O'Sullivan, now a senior vice president at Lenovo. "We didn't talk about growing." After the acquisition, "there was a real entrepreneurial feel again." There were other benefits too: Lenovo got the rights to use the IBM brand name for five years and snatched the premier Think family of computers. ThinkPad notebooks boast some of the best technology in the business, such as sensors that protect the hard drive if the notebook is dropped...
Back in the 1970s, when Texas politicians still drank, smoked and sparred in dark smoky bars, The Quorum Club was Austin's premier political watering hole. There at the big corner table, you'd find a cast of political characters drawn in bold Texas strokes-men with firm handshakes and loud laughs, men who had been nurtured by LBJ and knew politics, by and large, for that matter, mostly men. Most women in the room then were decorative. Except Ann Richards, the onetime Texas governor with the sharp tongue and quick wit, who died Wednesday...