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Senior Harvard Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60 made his first public appearance in Cambridge this year yesterday, after skipping commencement, President Drew G. Faust’s appointment, and her installation—events traditionally attended by Corporation members...
...Robert Rubin Named to Corporation (April 08, 2002 ) Robert E. Rubin ’60—mentor and long-time booster of University president Lawrence H. Summers—was confirmed yesterday morning as the newest member of the Harvard Corporation...
Rubin Sheds One Board Post But Vows to Keep Another (August 29, 2006) Harvard Corporation member Robert E. Rubin ’60 has resigned from the board. No, not that board. In fact, although Rubin stepped down from Ford Motor Company’s board last Thursday, he says he has no plans to leave Harvard’s executive board any time soon...
From Marshall to Rubin (June 06, 2001) When former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60 steps to the podium in Tercentenary Theater tomorrow to deliver the keynote address, he will be only the latest in a long line of influential Harvard Commencement speakers...
...exploration, which risks devolving into a blind whirlwind of American tourism. Such a devolution is risky, because tourism is an industry that caters to its customers; thus it often has a large impact on local cultural practices. Scholars have raised many concerns about this commodification of culture; as Robert Shepard writes, the tourist gaze has the power to turn culture into a spectacle and local peoples into facades of themselves —one thinks of Dave Eggers’ mountain porters on Kilimanjaro. It is sad irony that international travel can lead to the very destruction of the cultures...