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Andrei Shleifer ’82, a prize-winning economist but also a co-defendant in a $102 million federal suit against the University, will remain at Harvard despite an offer from New York University’s Stern School of Business...
Shleifer had been courted by Stern, which wanted to add him to their finance department...
...Knights, like its predecessor Shanghai Noon, is a western, the U.S. equivalent of the Qing dynasty martial-arts films that made Chan famous back home. Wilson's Roy O'Bannion is the self-legendizing cowboy, and Chan's Chon Wang (sounds like John Wayne) is essentially Roy's stern Indian sidekick. That's apt, since, when he's not smiling, Jackie's face has the weathered severity of a Cherokee scout...
...black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared to put bite in its bark, reportedly moving its nuclear-fuel rods out of storage?a possible step toward producing nuclear weapons...
Student scofflaws who illegally download music and movies got a stern warning from Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 in a message posted on the College website and sent over House lists last week. However, the College is not planning any immediate measures to stem illegal file transfers over Harvard’s network...