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Harvard Law School Professor Alan M. Dershowitz has agreed to serve on the defense team of R. Allen Stanford, who was arrested last June after allegations of his involvement in a Ponzi scheme...
Though he is still awaiting trial, Stanford is currently in prison. Dershowitz said that his main role in the case is to fight Stanford’s incarceration, which he says is not consistent with the Constitution...
...faculty members note that the gender skew is not a problem specific to Harvard Business School, as peer institutions such as Stanford, Wharton, and Kellogg report even lower percentages of women on faculty...
When confronted with this reality, political analysts and commentators often exclaim helplessness at the outcome, citing Kenneth Arrow’s “impossibility theorem” as a justification for using a flawed voting system. Arrow, a Stanford economist, won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his theorem explaining that no voting system could perfectly represent the preferences of a group of voters. According to the theorem, a perfectly representative voting system would create an outcome where the ranking of winners would align with voter preferences, unanimity would be respected, there would be no dictators, and irrelevant choices...
...proportion of female CS majors is similar at some of Harvard’s peer institutions—including Princeton, where it stands at 19 percent, and Stanford, where it is 14 percent...