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...task of Rapier and her administration under the incoming leadership of Bok and recently-appointed Interim Faculty Dean Jeremy R. Knowles. Despite their reputations as prodigious fundraisers, the two men are not expected to focus on fundraising in the short time they are back at Harvard.INSTITUTIONAL MEMORYPeter J. Solomon ’60, the founder of the New York-based Peter J. Solomon investment bank and another member of the executive committee of the CUR, says that he doesn’t expect big donors’ gift-giving levels to change.“Harvard’s alumni...
...grave misconduct.”“The Corporation opted for misconduct,” Kamin wrote. “The misconduct consisted of my exercising a constitutional right guaranteed in the Bill of Rights.”Kamin’s research mentor, Professor Richard Solomon, secured a grant that would allow him to complete his thesis despite the Corporation’s ruling. “For this decision, which left me unemployed three months before I could complete my Ph.D. thesis, Harvard was widely acclaimed as a bastion of academic freedom,” Kamin wrote...
...challenge. "It's a country where different races, different cultures can work together, challenging the top countries in the world." After the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Ainslie took a job as a high school teacher in the navy village of Simon's Town. There he met Golden Mgedeza and Solomon Dipeere, both teenage naval cadets from Kwa Thema township outside Johannesburg. Ainslie nurtured their passion for sailing, and offered free lessons to other poor black and mixed-race kids in the surrounding townships. Burricks was one of the keenest. "We had to chase him away to get him to do some...
After an uneventful national election in long-restive Solomon Islands, many expected the Parliament's choice of a Prime Minister to go smoothly. But when the 50 M.P.s chose Snyder Rini as the country's new leader on April 17, the capital, Honiara, exploded into violence. Looting and arson almost destroyed the small commercial district, setting the country's already fragile economy back years...
...Businessman Tigi Sikele allegedly threw the first rock from a crowd of protestors outside Parliament House. "After that it just erupted," says Royal Solomon Islands Police spokesman Mick Spinks. "The whole crowd just started picking up rocks and stoning the police and the police cars." Tear gas was used as a last resort to allow Rini to escape to safety, Spinks says. When the officers retreated into the building, half the 1,000-strong mob stayed around Parliament and the other half headed for Chinatown, starting an arson and looting spree that continued for two days...