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...Harvard Lost Russia,” an article by veteran investigative journalist David W. McClintick ’62 in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments in the Russian economy, and Harvard paid $26.5 million to settle a government lawsuit.University President Lawrence H. Summers said in a March...
...live in the dining hall, I help pick tutors,” she says. She welded her Leverett spirit and animation talent together in a May 2004 video, “The End of the Harvard,” that takes swipes at rival Houses. The video begins with Russian monks burning down Lowell’s belltower—presumably in retaliation for the House’s refusal to return its bells to the St. Danilov Monastery from which they came. The monks steal Adams House’s prized gong, initiating an apocalyptic conflict. The video also...
...other hostages and some visitors, her captors censored her reading material to keep her disconnected from the outside world, she said.The hostages were at the mercy of a group of disorganized and sometimes capricious student revolutionaries. One of Swift’s guards wanted to force her to play Russian roulette, she told The Crimson. And Frye says that Limbert, a former student, told him after he was released that he used to hear the revolutionaries “complaining they couldn’t go to class because they had to guard.” After 14 months...
...whom in those days were never considered for tenure.”According to Vogel, senior faculty raised questions about the quality of Skocpol’s scholarship in “States and Social Revolutions.” The book presented case studies of the French, Russian, and Chinese revolutions, but members of the department wondered whether Skocpol’s inability to read original French and Chinese sources compromised her research. Others question whether Skocpol’s opinions prejudiced her findings. “There was also a question of whether she had developed a certain point...
Since Air Force GeneralMichael Hayden was tapped on May 8 to head the CIA, there has been much speculation that Stephen Kappes, a former CIA operations chief fluent in Farsi and Russian, might leave a lucrative private-sector post to return as Hayden's deputy. As reported on TIME.com last week, a June 1 London Stock Exchange filing by ArmorGroup International, a London-based security firm where Kappes has worked since April 2005, confirms that he plans to rejoin the CIA. The company said Kappes "will be leaving the Group in early June 2006 to accept the position...