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Dani's father had been forced to stay behind to care for his own bed-ridden father. Rumors swirled in the camp about NATO bombs falling on Ferizaj and Serbian troops rounding up all of its men. When he finally spoke of his father, Dani turned away as he started to cry. I tried to comfort him, but we both realized the best course was to get back to visiting the tents - and the hardships - of others. When it was time to leave the camp for the final time, I told Dani to keep studying English, and I promised...
Amaker also spoke about the difficulty of keeping up defensive intensity while the opposition continues to hit long-range shots...
...Introduced by HBS Dean Jay O. Light as “a leader who I think knows a little bit about being in times of uncertainty,” Rubin spoke about his recent appointment as Citigroup's chairman of the board after the sudden departure of former CEO Charles O. Prince III. The company reported several billion dollars worth of write-downs as a result of the summer’s credit crisis...
Introduced by HBS Dean Jay O. Light as “a leader who I think knows a little bit about being in times of uncertainty,” Rubin spoke about his recent Citigroup's appointment as chairman of the board after the sudden departure of former CEO Charles O. Prince III. The company reported several billion dollars worth of write-downs as a result of the summer’s credit crisis...
...around long enough to remember when it was leaders of the radical left, led by MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, who were trying to intrude on the tenure process for political reasons. I recall vividly when Chomsky campaigned to prevent Columbia from granting a tenured position to Henry Kissinger. Chomsky spoke at a noisy rally against Kissinger’s tenure. It was that same Chomsky who complained when I wrote a letter—in response to a request from the former chairman of the political science department—detailing misquotations, made-up facts, and other scholarly sins...