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...world through Russian eyes,” Daniloff says. “He gave me bad advice.”During his Harvard career, Daniloff says, his father saw his son’s prospects for advancement through those eyes.“When I applied for a Rhodes scholarship, he said to me ‘you’ll never get a Rhodes unless you bribe the judges,’” Daniloff recalls.Daniloff neither bribed the judges, nor received the scholarship. But he did fulfill his father’s wish that he get into...
They both lived quietly in retirement, stationed in secluded offices as they transitioned from leadership back to scholarship. One has been likened to Abraham Lincoln, while the other is described as a “safe pair of hands.”And come July 1, Derek C. Bok and Jeremy R. Knowles—the past and future leaders of the University and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences—will have an unprecedented opportunity to reassume their positions at Harvard’s helm; Bok as interim president, and Knowles as interim dean...
...drop out of ROTC, and that was because of asthma; she is now a nurse in Boulder, Colo. Meanwhile, in addition to Laura, there is Darwin, 30, a JAG officer who has already shipped out from El Paso, Texas. Sister Janis, 32, who got a military scholarship to medical school, is likely to fly to the gulf this week, after last-minute practice in treating blown-off legs and catastrophic burns and the effects of poison gas. She advised Laura on medicines to carry with her and is aware that the day could come when she has to treat...
Whether from Accra, Ghana, or Springfield, Mass., the Ron Brown Scholarship winners all took winding paths to the Harvard Coop. On the third floor of the bookstore yesterday afternoon, the scholarship winners spoke of the racial discrimination, financial hardships, and other challenges they faced prior to college. The $40,000 Ron Brown Scholarships honor exceptionally motivated and academically accomplished African American high school seniors. Winners provided a snapshot of their individual journeys in an anthology of essays bound in the hard-cover book, “I Have Risen,” which went on sale in late March...
Police are investigating the disappearance of a Somerville resident who has reportedly been missing for nearly two weeks in a case where detectives have ruled out foul play. Jane Park, 23, who won a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from Wellesley College in 2004 and took classes at the Extension School this past fall, was last seen in Harvard Square on May 5, according to a missing-adult alert released by the Somerville Police Department. Park was first reported missing after her roommate had not seen or heard from Park in five days, said Christine Y. Teng...