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Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen, who won the Nobel Prize in 1998 for contributions to welfare economics, will deliver the Class Day address at the Kennedy School today. He rejoined the Harvard economics department in January after spending nearly six years as master of Trinity College, Cambridge—a post he garnered after recommendation by the British prime minister...
...Sen is no stranger to the Commencement stage. He delivered Harvard’s main Commencement address—the most prestigious speech in the ceremony—in 2000. Even while teaching at Trinity College, he frequently made visits to speak at Harvard...
...same time, Harvard’s leader was also thrust into the public spotlight as an old foe of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R.-Wisc., defending his faculty’s academic freedom as McCarthy and other politicians targeted institutions of higher education for harboring suspected communists...
...When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D.-Mass, took Richard J. Clasby ’54 skiing in the winter of their freshman year, the future leader of the Democratic Party was in top form, keeping Clasby on his toes from the very beginning...
...federal appeals court ordered Nixon to surrender the tapes. Instead of appealing to the Supreme Court, Nixon proposed that Sen. John C. Stennis, a conservative Democrat from Mississippi, screen the tapes to determine if the content was relevant to Cox’s investigation...