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...Corporation’s senior fellow until 2002, he led the panel that ultimately picked Lawrence H. Summers as its 27th. Incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok ranked Stone “among the three or four most influential people of the last 25 years in helping to shape Harvard’s constructive influence on the world.” A prodigious fundraiser, Stone “would hear about an Arabian sheik who had some remote connection to Harvard, and he would hop on the next plane there,” longtime Corporation member Hugh D. Calkins...
...Doing all these things is of course no guarantee of victory. "Rahm can run as aggressive an operation as possible and raise as much money as possible and whip candidates into shape," said one Democratic strategist, "but he can't make up the wave. Bush is the wave. These races are all about Bush...
...Little Rock, Ark., went on to become a pioneer of gay and lesbian fiction who has written 20 science fiction and fantasy novels so far.A consistent theme of Scott’s novels is how society defines a person, who gets to set the definition, and how people shape their mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna J. Sturgis says, “Melissa manages to pull together an array of strong influences, some of them apparently contradictory, like military history, theater, costuming, music, not to mention being an Arkansan in New England, a lesbian in a straight...
...minorities and women largely depends on mentors—minority and female members of the faculty from whom students can learn.“I think women wanted to have people who could inspire them,” she says.BACK TO BOKIn the 1998 book “The Shape of the River” that Bok co-wrote with former Princeton University president William G. Bowen, Bok presents some factors that could be responsible for the supposed decline in expected academic performance.The book suggests that pre-college influences such as the rigor of a student’s educational...
...John J. Lee Ampitheater, Harvard bounced back to blow out Brown on the road and dispatch Columbia in New York. The Crimson was one win over Cornell away from taking four of five games on its toughest road trip of the year and returning to Lavietes Pavilion in great shape for a critical series against Princeton and Penn. That scenario came painfully close to being made reality, for despite having both Stehle and Cusworth foul out in the game’s final minutes, the Crimson fought to a three point lead with under a minute left. But Cornell captain...