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...alcohol. “His quiet, gentlemanly ways will be greatly missed,” Children’s Chief Executive James Mandell wrote in a message to staff Tuesday afternoon. Shannon is survived by his wife, Elaine, and two children, Evan and Lila—bothundergraduates at Stanford University. —Staff writer Noah S. Rayman can be reached at nrayman@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer June Q. Wu can be reached at junewu@fas.harvard.edu...
...explore how we come by our illusory sense of power, a team led by business professors Nathanael Fast and Deborah Gruenfeld of Stanford University devised a series of experiments. In the first, they recruited 38 students and divided them into three groups. They asked one group to write about an experience in which they felt they had control over other people, and another group to write about a time they felt out of control. The third group wrote nothing. All of the students were then given dice and told that if they correctly guessed the number they rolled, they would...
...After news broke of Allen Stanford's alleged Ponzi, he went missing. Stanford was ultimately found by authorities with Andrea Stoelker, his girlfriend, at her home in Fredericksburg...
...real wife, Susan, filed for divorce in November 2007, and though the case is still pending, lawyers have asked her husband for $225,000 in attorney's fees. In state court filings in Texas, Mrs. Stanford asked the court to award her "exclusive use and control" of two Mercedes, a Porsche Boxster, a home in Houston's upscale Tanglewood neighborhood and a Houston condominium. She's also asked for access to all the estates in Antigua and St. Croix, plus all jets, yachts and access to VIP suites for events including Houston Rockets basketball games. But like her husband...
...often that a place like Harvard Medical School gets an F - particularly when rivals Stanford, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania are pulling A's and B's. But that's what happened recently when the members of the increasingly influential - and increasingly noisy - American Medical Student Association (AMSA) decided to grade 150 med schools on just how much money and gifts they're collecting from drug companies. The more goodies a school is vacuuming up from the industry, the worse its grade...