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...Summers also created a task force charged with investigating ways to raise money for graduate financial aid, and he launched Harvard’s Presidential Scholars program, which uses the president??s discretionary funds to subsidize the costs of 75 graduate students each year...
...real question to ask is which of the major candidates is best suited to serve at this particular moment in history. One unfortunate consideration about this particular moment in history is that a president??s success relies on his or her ability to operate within a rigid “system” that consists, in large part, of aggressive special interests representing everything from corporations and unions to environmental groups. Another hard truth: America will be red and blue, not purple, for the foreseeable future. Democrats will only make progress past red and blue when they actually...
...dean of Duke University’s medical school, Duke announced Monday. She will be the only woman leader at the nation’s top 10 medical schools once Barbara J. McNeil finishes her term as interim dean of HMS on Saturday. Duke has previously had a female president??Harvard Corporation member Nannerl O. Keohane—and some of its schools have been led by women, but Andrews’ appointment to the top post at its School of Medicine is a first for the university. Andrews wrote in an e-mail that she has been...
Over the past few years, Unger has attacked Lula’s government for its recurring corruption scandals. He has gone so far as to describe the administration as “the most corrupt in Brazilian history,” calling for the president??s impeachment in a 2005 editorial in Folha de S. Paulo, a Portuguese-language daily often regarded as Brazil’s newspaper-of-record...
...because of his unorthodox views on infant baptism. Because most historians of Harvard read its development as a progressive and welcome move away from those earliest religious identities, and hence tend to minimize them, the very existence of such an identity is news to a lot of people. The president??s gown, for example, is a form of clerical rather than of academic dress, and the Corporation’s official seal still reads “Truth for Christ and the Church;” both are functioning contemporary vestiges of Harvard’s religious past...