Word: richarde
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...several of his most loyal alumni supporters voiced their displeasure at his ouster with the largely symbolic threat of withholding all future donations.James B. Davis ’75 called it a “disgrace.”“So be it,” Richard A. Holt ’64 penned in an unpublished letter to The Crimson in 2006. “Henceforth, when the alumni fund solicitors call, I shall not donate so much as a penny to this shallow institution.”Following the installation of University President Drew G. Faust...
...said that cooking is the way to a man’s heart. But according to Harvard Biological Anthropology Professor Richard W. Wrangham, cooking is the way to a good deal more than that. In his book “Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human,” released Monday, Wrangham argues that the invention of cooking allowed for our primate ancestors to become humans. “We are the cooking apes, the creatures of the flame,” said Wrangham in an interview yesterday. Wrangham bases his argument on wide-ranging scientific evidence, both biological...
...least partially avoided through a more open process.“I think many of us on the faculty felt that the mission on this side of the river would be impaired if Harvard had moved too aggressively with Allston, and that clearly happened,” says Richard F. Thomas, a classics professor. Instead, “it was pretty much show and tell. I think there would have been a lot more balancing of the current, real parts of the University, and a lot less aggressive movement in Allston if the perception that some...
...Richard E. Neustadt, the founding director of Harvard’s Institute of Politics, was fond of saying that the power of the Presidency is the power of persuasion.Of course, the late White House adviser meant the U.S. Presidency, but without the trappings of the American executive branch, a standing army, or a multi-billion dollar budget, leadership on the Undergraduate Council perhaps offers at least an equally compelling proof of Neustadt’s thesis.Persuasiveness was a trait clearly prized by last year’s UC leader Matthew L. Sundquist ’09, a habitual social networker...
...Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, just returned from a trip to China, where, he told the Wall Street Journal, "senior officials grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetize the actions of our legislature. I must have been asked about that a hundred times...