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...Zachary Thacher often spends Friday nights at home in his New York City apartment, but not because he's skipping out on Sabbath-eve prayer services. Thacher, 32, is the founder of Kol haKfar, an independent Jewish community that, like a growing number of similar groups around the country, meets in the homes of community participants. Thacher says he started his group--which now has a Friday-eve attendance of about 25--because "having a meaningful, personal service just didn't seem possible in the harsh lighting and monotonous, institutional vibe of a synagogue...
Harper was the first and only African American to serve on the Corporation in Harvard’s 369-year history. That’s a designation with which he is intimately familiar, having also been the first black partner at Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, the prestigious New York law firm, and the first black president of the New York City Bar Association...
Harper, who graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965, is a partner at the prominent New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. A former president of the New York City Bar Association, Harper served as the top legal advisor to the State Department from 1993 to 1996, while Summers was also in Washington at the Treasury...
...partner at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a 1965 graduate of Harvard Law School, Harper was the first African-American to sit on the Corporation...
Conrad K. Harper, a 1965 graduate of the Law School and a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York, has long harbored serious qualms about Summers, according to several current and former Harvard officials familiar with the Corporation. Harper has been particularly critical of Summers’ abrasive management style and made those objections clear during the presidential search, say the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity...