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...fund's committee in Japan, responsible forraising more than $500,000, was chaired byProfessor Hiroshi Kaneko, who was a Harvard LawSchool student under Surrey and Oldman from 1961to 1963 and a visiting scholar from...
Idealism seems to run in the blood of Hollywood's new junior class, several of whom grew up in counterculture families. Thurman's mother was once married to Timothy Leary-who is also, coincidentally, Ryder's godfather. Thurman's father is a highly regarded scholar of Buddhism. Charles Bukowski was a frequent houseguest at the DiCaprios' when Leonardo was growing up in Los Angeles. The actor's best childhood friend was Abbie Hoffman's son. And Sarah Jessica Parker grew up idolizing Cesar Chavez and attending peace marches with her parents...
Maraniss lets the story linger long, perhaps too long, over Clinton's days as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. But it is an important stop. There we see Clinton's boyhood habit of telling people what they want to hear turn into a propensity for deceit and lies. Clinton seems to struggle genuinely with his conscience, but ultimately he ducks a choice. He is drafted, but pulls strings to get into a ROTC program in which he has no intention of actually participating...
With the appointment last week of University of Pennsylvania legal scholar Elizabeth Warren, however, Harvard Law School appears to be giving cause for celebration. Warren will become the tenth female professor out of 69 law school faculty members, making women about 15 percent of the school's faculty. Compared to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, where women make up slightly over 10 percent of the total faculty, the law school is not doing that badly. Fifteen percent may not be much, but it certainly represents some progress...
...Rudenstine is to fulfill his duties as president, transcending the role of supreme fundraiser (ever heard of Benno Schmidt?), he must recognize that the presidency also includes the roles of scholar and academic. If he hopes to successfully carry out his many duties, Rudenstine must give himself time to rest and reflect every now and then. We wish him well as he embarks upon the second part of his term...