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...conservative Prime Ministers?Abe always knew which side he was on. Katsuei Hirasawa, now an LDP Diet member, tutored a young Abe for two years, and he recalls taking the primary-school student to his dorm at the University of Tokyo, at the heart of Japan's 1960s political tumult. "He would be right in the middle of pacifist, anti-Sato protests," Hirasawa recalls. "He wasn't angry; just very curious. He kept asking, 'Why are those people bullying my uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Abe Enigma | 9/11/2006 | See Source »

...That tumult has some analysts thinking Marvel is prepping itself for sale. "These are guys who'd be squeezed out by a merger," says Jefferies & Co. analyst Robert Routh, who owns Marvel stock. "A major move would make sense by the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marvel Unmasked | 8/7/2006 | See Source »

...today he leaves office quietly, without any of the fanfare that accompanied his arrival, or the tumult and clamor of his most difficult days. For the most part, the only people on campus are visiting students who would probably not recognize the man who, for better or worse, has been the face of Harvard for the past five years. Many professors, too, are gone, conducting research or vacationing outside of Cambridge...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli and Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Quietly, The Summers Era Ends | 6/30/2006 | See Source »

...secretary under President Clinton from 1999 to 2001, have served as cabinet officials in different administrations for opposing political parties, but the two have a lot in common. Both faced calls for their resignation—for Summers, from professors; for Rumsfeld, from retired generals. And both blamed the tumult on small segments of those two constituencies. But Rumsfeld ultimately found greater support from his boss when President Bush said he was "exactly what is needed." Summers, by contrast, lost the backing of several members of the Harvard Corporation, the University’s most powerful governing board...

Author: By Nicholas M. Ciarelli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rumsfeld Says He Is 'Most Grateful' for Summers' Support of ROTC | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

...Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby this spring, some people involved in fundraising at Harvard are worried that the buildings may remain unnamed a little longer.Interviews with almost two dozen major donors and prominent alumni over the past two weeks suggest that the resignations and the resulting tumult in the University have slowed the momentum of Harvard’s fundraising machine, with some alums and administrators worrying that the instability at the top of the University has led to the delay or even the withdrawal of significant gifts that had been under discussion.Those familiar with fundraising have indicated...

Author: By Reed B. Rayman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Post-Summers, Large Gifts in Limbo | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

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