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...science and engineering jobs.But in fact, Summers’ most incendiary battles with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were over what they saw as his abrasive leadership style, his firing of then-FAS dean William C. Kirby, and his possible role in the government fraud scandal that implicated his close friend, economics professor Andrei Shleifer ’82.And while these issues proved fatal to his presidency, both his supporters and critics now suggest that Summers’ difficulties leading Harvard don’t mean he wouldn’t make a good Treasury secretary...
...milk scandal is simply the latest and not by any means the most lethal example of the dark side of Chinese capitalism. The heparin case, in fact, has been far deadlier. Last summer the Food and Drug Administration updated the estimated death toll worldwide associated with tainted heparin to 149. As more and more pharmaceuticals are sourced in developing countries--an estimated $1.5 billion from China and India alone in 2007, according to a study by Credit Suisse--the heparin case has raised a fundamental question in the U.S. and the rest of the developed world: How safe...
...Gossip Girl” character wannabe? We’ll hold off on that question. Instead, let’s pose this one: what do those three teeth symbolize? Given the title, I’d say it might have something to do with scandal, secrets, and the unbridled rumors that follow. And given those options, what’s not to love? —Evan T.R. Rosenman
...true reason Smada should be celebrated is because it inspires house spirit in this post-randomization age of apathy. People piled into the upper common room last Thursday to try the house beer for the same reason they got riled up during the Eliot vs. Adams rug scandal of 2008 and the Pfoho gong drama of ’99. Our ancestral sense of house spirit was called forth. We wanted to be a part of a petty demonstration of house pride like that displayed on Housing Day. And since beer was involved, we were ready with our war paint...
...John F. Kennedy with the help of some Chicago voters who had already drawn their last breath, Richard M. Daley has been dogged by problems of his own. At least one of his aides has been convicted in a contract-scam case, and the city council is rarely scandal-free...