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...raised $476 million and endowing a wing of the new Northwest Corner Building with the largest single donation in the Law School’s history. Caspersen, 67, had been battling kidney cancer before his death on the grounds of a golf club in Westerly, Rhode Island near his summer home. He is survived by his wife Barbara, four sons, and grandchildren...
...heels of an economic recession and the installation of a new presidential administration, Harvard students are increasingly looking towards the public sector for work experience, data and programming from campus career organizations suggest. Applicants for the Institute of Politics’ summer stipend program, which funds students working in the public sector, increased by 120 percent this spring, and applications to the IOP’s Director’s Internship program, an array of governmental summer work experiences, increased by 60 percent from 2008, according to the IOP’s Internship Program Administrator Amy Howell. Public sector enthusiasm...
...Book Award (for that novel), a MacArthur “genius grant,” and is consistently on the rumored short list for the Nobel Prize in Literature.All of this perhaps explains why the critical response to “Inherent Vice,” released earlier this summer, has been long on career retrospection and short on evaluation. So let me say it now: “Inherent Vice” is not a very good novel. It’s not engaging. It’s not inventive. It’s not intricate, and it?...
...politically troublesome university students in Tehran, Tabriz and Shiraz, whom they are banning from living in campus dormitories, subjecting to disciplinary hearings or outright suspending or expelling. Advar News, a student news agency, claimed that 50 students at University of Tehran - which was the epicenter of not only this summer's protests but also demonstrations that led to the fall of the Shah 30 years ago - were recently forced to defend themselves for hours in front of a disciplinary committee. "I am tired of going to university, which always looks like a prison," says a young woman who was suspended...
...Boulevard alone, site of a millions-strong silent march in June. But can the students dent the hard-liners' seemingly armored position of power? New York University professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, author of a new book, The Predictioneer's Game, that argues that pressure by student demonstrators this summer has already led to concessions by the regime, predicts that the influence of students will rise sharply this month to a level that will rival that of Khamenei's. "That doesn't mean they're going to rule the day," says Mesquita. "But it does mean we will...