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...Approximate number of website hits on www.thecrimson.com on Tuesday, Apr. 25, at the height of the plagiarism scandal surrounding student novelist Kaavya Viswanathan...
...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 interview that he “skimmed?...
...subordinates and that he had paid other women for their eggs.Some speculated that Hwang’s subordinates might have felt pressure to donate their eggs. And payment for egg donations has since been banned by South Korea.The Harvard researchers acknowledged yesterday that in the wake of the scandal in Korea, the eyes of the entire scientific community would be on their work.“There is going to be an extra degree of scrutiny,” Daley said. “We’ll be held to an exceedingly high standard.”Daley said...
...remarkable or revealing than the e-mail archives of any of Harvard’s student groups. From the archives, we learned that social club members benefit from their alumni network both in terms of job opportunities and donations. We learned that club members sometimes like to drink alcohol. (Scandal!) And we learned that the club’s punch process, during which new members are chosen, relies less on any nebulous measurement of “merit” and more on the social adeptness of prospective members. In short, the archives confirmed everything that everyone already knew about...
...potential is clear. Seymour Hersh’s article on Abu Ghraib “made” the news while changing American policy. Other times, a story’s potential is harder to judge. An article in a small Beirut newspaper led to the Iran-Contra scandal. Closer to home, who could have guessed that an article about “intrinsic aptitudes” nearly a year and a half ago would crystallize Faculty resistance and lead to the ouster of University President Lawrence H. Summers...