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Calling the response to his potential candidacy “simply humbling and inspiring,” former Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig announced yesterday that he will not mount a bid for Congress from his San Francisco-area district. The copyright and cyberlaw expert, who has been at Stanford since 2000, had been encouraged to run for office by Harvard cyberlaw professor John G. Palfrey, Jr. ’94. Palfrey was the leader of a Web-based “Draft Lessig” movement to encourage his friend to seek office. In a video posted...
...deputy dean for academic affairs at HBS—is co-chair of the executive education program, which is now in its fourth year at Harvard. The program is also administered at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, admitting a total of 114 players through an extensive application process, according to a press release. “Players have a lot of business interests off the field,” said Dan Masonson, corporate communications manager...
...Harvard women’s squash team (7-5, 4-3 Ivy) fell to Trinity (14-3), 6-3, Friday morning in the first round of the season-ending eight-team Howe Cup, but rallied with convincing 9-0 victories over Stanford (6-6) and Dartmouth (10-6) over the weekend to win the consolation bracket and take fifth place in the tournament. The fifth-place finish capped a long season for the young team, which started only freshman and sophomores for most of the year. With only one senior on the roster, nearly the entire squad returns next year...
...money toward attracting talented science students,” he said. Casey, who will be DePauw’s 19th president, joined Harvard in 2006 after serving in multiple administrative roles at Brown. He holds a law degree from Stanford—where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review—as well as a Ph.D. in American Civilization and a Master’s degree from Harvard. He succeeds Robert G. Bottoms, who has served as head of DePauw since 1986 and is the school’s longest-serving president. —Staff writer...
...elephant. This is called playing the race card. Richard Thompson Ford’s new book, “The Race Card: How Bluffing about Bias Makes Race Relations Worse,” examines the fine line between ignoring the elephant and blaming everything on the beast. Ford, a Stanford law professor, leads the reader across this racial relations tightrope of discerning when “complaints of racial prejudice are valid and appropriate and when...they are exaggerated, paranoid, or simply dishonest” but never presents any truly satisfying answers. The work’s premised...