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...Roger W. Ferguson Jr. ’73, former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, has been selected as the president of the University’s Board of Overseers, Harvard’s second-highest governing body, for the 2008-2009 school year, school officials announced last week. Ferguson, who will serve as president in the final year of his six-year term as an overseer, will succeed Frances D. Fergusson ’66 after Commencement in June. William F. Lee ’72, the outgoing vice chair of the board’s executive committee...
...Roger Agnelli, a 48-year-old investment banker, became CEO in 2001. He inherited a company whose historic strength lay deep in the Amazon, in the massive iron-ore deposits of Carajas. Iron ore then accounted for 75% of Vale's revenues, and Agnelli's first move was to consolidate domestically, by selling off peripheral holdings in paper and forestry (Agnelli's family business) and using the proceeds to swallow eight rival firms. This gave the company new reserves and more sway over prices to the domestic steel industry, just before the commodities boom really kicked off in 2003 with...
...Humans differ from the other animals because we have been given reason and free will. In your effort to bring your readers knowledge of the human condition, you labored under a curse. As William Faulkner might have put it, you wrote not of the heart but of the glands. Roger Bonilla Sunnyvale, California...
...other animals because we have been given the gifts of reason and free will. In your attempts to bring to your readers knowledge of the human condition, you labored under a curse. As William Faulkner might have put it, you wrote not of the heart but of the glands. Roger Bonilla, Sunnyvale, Calif...
...adding that Asian Americans make up the highest proportion of ethnic minorities at Harvard. “The issue has been whether the white people will take all the goodies. Harvard has decided no.” But others disagree with Harvard’s use of affirmative action. Roger B. Clegg, president and general counsel of the Center for Equal Opportunity, believes in a merit-based system of college admission that does not consider race. In a system where one group is deemed “overrepresented,” such as Asian Americans under current admissions schemes...