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...departure announcement follows Pforzheimer House Masters Sue and James J. McCarthy's in November. And other House Masters may soon follow suit. In an interview last month, Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds said more might retire in the next few years. She also said she hopes to recruit minority members of the Faculty to fill vacated positions. Neither Rosen nor Sassanfar could be reached for comment. —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...Obama's plan is to recruit hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people over the coming Martin Luther King Day weekend to do volunteer work in their communities - anything from senior-center visits to mural paintings to attendance at a vigil protesting China's role in the Darfur genocide. Groups as diverse as the National Center for Transgender Equality and James Dobson's Focus on the Family are taking part, with 8,500 events nationwide listed on the site as of Wednesday. "It's an effort to emphasize the fact that people have to take responsibility for their...
...early to tell how Obama's call to service will perform when put up against other great presidential pleas of the past. Long after Kennedy, President George H.W. Bush spoke out about "a thousand points of light," and President Bill Clinton founded AmeriCorps to recruit more young people into public service. All those efforts were relatively effective, for a time. But never before has a sitting President put so much faith in new technology to make it all happen...
...with joy, he called his sister and was almost crying; it was an incredible moment.”Much has changed since Yelbi first came to the United States in the hopes of playing basketball professionally.“I was kind of arrogant—I was a recruit for the [basketball] team,” he says.He now says that he hopes to go to medical school and “use the knowledge I get from God to serve people.”“I try to be humble,” Yelbi says...
...Italy in 1934, set the standard in the genre. But the golden age of Ponzi and pyramid schemes didn't arrive for decades. (The two highly similar cons are often conflated, though in Ponzi schemes, a ringleader facilitates the entire enterprise; in a pyramid scheme, rungs of collaborators recruit new investors.) In the boom years of the 1980s and '90s, as traders developed increasingly sophisticated investment vehicles, the cons cropped up with increasing regularity. In 1985, a San Diego currency trader named David Dominelli was revealed to have fleeced more than 1,000 investors to the tune of $80 million...