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Rice is not accustomed to failure. The prodigious accomplishments of her youth--she learned Beethoven at 5, finished college at 19 and earned tenure at Stanford at 26--have been followed by a glide to global prominence. Even as the Bush Administration's support has slid to historic depths, Rice's image has been relatively unsullied. She remains not just the most glamorous member of the Bush Cabinet but also its most popular, with job-approval ratings 20 points higher than her boss's. Among the top officials in the Administration, she is the only one who could reasonably expect...
With the announcement, Cech joins several other serious presidential contenders who have publicly said they are not candidates for Harvard’s top post. Both Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy and University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Alison F. Richard, who were said as recently as last month to be under serious consideration by the committee, have repeatedly denied interest in the post...
...give up, no way. I moved on and started thinking outside the box. I wanted something representative of how powerful we are but also something unique, different, that no one has ever thought of.Plants. Yes, plants. No one has a plant mascot, except for the Stanford tree, but they’re actually the Cardinal, so they make no sense because a cardinal is a bird. A plant would be unique, but only the Venus Flytrap could work to intimidate. And what about the kiddies? Kids hate Venus Flytraps, studies show.Finally, I cleared my mind, thought of everything Harvard represents...
NICOLA C. PERLMAN ’09 of Stanford, Calif. and Eliot House Associate Magazine Editor...
When Secord left Government service in 1983, he became president of Stanford Technology Trading Group International, based in Vienna, Va. He formed that company together with Albert Hakim, an Iranian-born arms dealer who runs a California electronics firm started up in the 1970s to sell sensitive U.S. technology overseas. Stanford Technology has had intriguing connections in Switzerland. There was a Stanford Technology Corp. in Geneva and a Stanford Technology Services in Freiburg. The Geneva firm had the same address as the Compagnie de Services Fiduciaires (C.S.F.), which the Times of London identified as the repository for $18 million...