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This winter, several Harvard professors opened their mailboxes to find anonymous, unmarked envelopes.Enclosed were copies of “How Harvard Lost Russia,” an article by veteran investigative journalist David W. McClintick ’62 in the January issue of Institutional Investor magazine. In 18,000 words, the spellbinding narrative detailed the University’s effort to reform the Russian economy in the 1990s—and the fraud scandal that resulted. The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that University employees who steered the project violated their federal contracts by making personal investments...
...Houghton’s view that mattered most. Unlike Keohane and Reischauer, he was a veteran of the Corporation. As the senior fellow, he had the reputation and clout to effect change. He had been in touch with Faculty members since early fall, but one individual who spoke with him says he did not realize the gravity of the situation until the final moments, hoping it would not mar what the sources say is likely his penultimate year on the board...
...most recently in the fall of 2004. Members of the 2004 seminar established a close relationship with their professor and peers, dubbing themselves “Phil’s 12”—a group that interacted with Stone beyond the context of the class.A veteran of Stone’s freshman seminar, Tiffany T. Niver ’08, says that “although he had done much and was so knowledgeable in his field, he always asked us our opinion.” She says that he was a “quiet leader?...
Jess R. Burkle ’06 is a veteran of the Harvard stage, but even so, he won’t feel adequately prepared when he gets behind the podium to give today’s male Ivy Oration. And that’s the way he likes it. “I have a tendency to improv in public speaking, which can sometimes lead to disastrous consequences,” says Burkle, leaning back in a chair in Quincy courtyard. “I feel like as long as I don’t make a racial slur...
...left-wing nationalist and 24-year veteran of the Peruvian Army, Humala himself has been accused of torturing and killing suspected guerrillas during the country's war against terrorism and the Shining Path in the early 1990s, charges he flatly denies. His only political activity before launching his campaign was a brief, unsuccessful uprising against then-President Fujimori in October 2000. After Fujimori's government collapsed a few weeks later, Humala was pardoned and sent abroad as a military attach?, returning to Peru early last year. He is the clear favorite among Peru's rural and urban poor, who have...