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...Shleifer violated conflict-of-interest policies by personally investing in Russia while running the program. The article suggests that Summers shielded Shleifer from disciplinary action by the University, which paid $26.5 million to settle the lawsuit. But in a brief letter dated Feb. 14, Vice President and General Counsel Robert W. Iuliano ’83 says the article does not make clear that Summers recused himself from the University’s decisions about the suit “from the outset of his presidency at Harvard.” The letter also says Summers did not participate...
...necessarily, said Robert Maguire, a professor at Trinity University, who has been following Haitian politics for more than two decades. "At some point Haiti has to start enforcing a regime of a rule of law. Where it starts, I don't Know but the sooner the better." And that's where Preval may have a chance to distinguish himself. An important Haitian judicial landmark occurred during Preval's first presidency, with the unprecedented conviction of 15 members of the military and former paramilitaries for a 1994 massacre of more than 20 people. And his response to the crowds this week...
This apocryphal story took place during my grandfather’s sophomore year at Harvard. His name was Robert A. Riesman Sr., and he graduated from Harvard College in the Class...
That tradition has had its ups and its downs, but it’s always been fascinating. My great-grandfather, S. Robert Stone, was in the Class of 1920, making him one of the first Jews to come here after they lifted the “Jewish quotas,” and one of the last to come here before President Lowell started using other techniques to crack down on our cheating kind. My great uncle Dick once told me about how he was in Expos with Henry A. Kissinger...
...There are different types of heart attacks, plus nowadays [we can measure] different sizes," says Dr. Robert McNamara, an echocardiographer at Yale University School of Medicine and a spokesman for the American College of Cardiology. Most likely, Dr. McNamara believes, the heart attack was detectable only because of a change in Whittington's EKG or a change in certain enzyme levels in the blood...