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...Harman, 63, grew up in Los Angeles and has four children. Her husband, Sidney Harman, is the founder of Harman International Industries, an audio parts company whose success has netted the couple an estimated fortune of more than $400 million. That sum made her the richest member of Congress, according to a 2008 report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Rep. Jane Harman | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...lower room and board fees for students who will not be allowed to stay on campus for the two weeks in January, Hammonds said. The idea for a J-Term was first suggested by a 2003 committee charged with reevaluating the current University calendar, a group chaired by Professor Sidney Verba ’53. The Verba Committee developed a new calendar that consisted of two four-month semesters separated by a one-month break. But calendar reform subsequently fell by the wayside amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration. In spring...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: College Cuts J-Term Plans | 4/7/2009 | See Source »

...communities after three decades of fighting and the devastation of their province in the 2004 tsunami. Some 170,000 people in the province were killed the disaster. "There is little danger in the short term of violence escalating out of control, let alone a return to armed conflict," Sidney Jones, senior adviser to the International Crisis Group (ICG), wrote in a recent report. "But the underlying causes of the tensions are not just election-related and need to be addressed if peace is to be preserved in the long term." (See pictures from Aceh after the tsunami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aceh Ramps Up Security Ahead of Elections | 4/3/2009 | See Source »

...Enter Sydney Fife (Segel), a large, louche fellow with no discernable means of income but with a self-confidence that Peter is on the way to understanding he totally lacks. For purposes of plot, this odd couple clicks, and they start hanging out together at Sidney's Pacific pad. It's essentially a learning experience, Sydney serving as Henry Higgins to Peter's Eliza Doolittle. While Sydney strolls down the Malibu promenade refusing to clean up his dog's fresh turds, Peter confesses that his favorite movie is the girlie drama Chocolat and that, when he masturbates, his erotic inspiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Love You, Man: A Final Bromance? | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...September 2003, then-President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and University deans announced their desire to reevaluate the University’s calendars. A committee chaired by Professor Sidney Verba ’53 was formed to spearhead the effort...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Administration Has Few Answers to J-Term Questions | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

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