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...Paulin, internal student agitation played a significant role in the canceling of a lecture by the vocally anti-Zionist Irish poet. But it was arguably the national coverage of the incident that gave the English department the extra push to re-extend their invitation. While never the sole determining factor, the media attention nonetheless cemented the belief that free speech itself was at stake. Harvard’s English department could not be seen to compromise on those values...
...owns Harvard, its caché, its history, its resources? It isn’t the sole property of its students, that’s for sure. This becomes clear from the beginning of an undergraduate’s first year, when students cannot walk to the dining hall without contending with crowds of camera-snappers blocking the 50-foot radius around the John Harvard statue, and when minute details of campus events end up on CNN. But as some shrewd students have learned, this can be used this to their advantage...
Sometime in late October, as the trio traveled by bus to San Diego, Mary Katherine Smart, 10, had a revelation of her own. The sole witness to her sister's kidnapping walked into her parents' bedroom and blurted out, "Dad, I think I know who it might be." The culprit? "Emmanuel," the man who had helped repair their roof. Though investigators composed three sketches based on Mary Katherine's recollections, they did not release any of the drawings. As late as Feb. 12, Mitchell was arrested by the San Diego County sheriff's office for breaking a church window...
...Oreal cosmetics--founded by her father in 1907--through a holding company. She and her daughter Francoise, 49, sit on the L'Oreal board, but no other family member works at the firm. When Freddie Heineken died last year, control of his brewing colossus passed to his daughter and sole heir, Charlene de Carvalho Heineken, 48. She lives in London with her banker husband and their five young children, and she has no involvement with day-to-day operations. Karl and Theo Albrecht, the secretive German brothers who rank as the richest people in Europe, are withdrawing from the management...
...says, "It's clear he will take the reins." Their biggest challenge now is to earn a return on their $5 billion investment in Gucci at a time of worldwide economic weakness--and to prevent Gucci's star designer Tom Ford and CEO Domenico de Sole from leaving when their contracts expire next year...