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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withholding all future donations.James B. Davis ’75 called it a “disgrace.”“So be it,” Richard A. Holt ’64 penned in an unpublished letter to The Crimson in 2006.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...
...It’s the last chance. If you don’t come to this one, there won’t be another,” said Richard L. Williams ’59, who had previously never attended a college reunion...
...Until the early 1980s—before the introduction of personal computers—Harvard exclusively provided centralized computing to students and faculty. Richard P. Draves ’85, now a research area manager at Microsoft, remembers, “There were these rooms of terminals in the basement of the Science Center.” The central machine was a VAX 11/780. “It was not a very fast processor,” Draves recalls, “and [at any given time] it was being shared among about 50 students...
...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...