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...year and are led by students or local wine producers and distributors. Wine is either brought by the invited speaker or purchased with membership dues, which are around $150 per year, Ford says. The group also holds a “boot camp,” an intensive week-long set of tastings that culminates in a blind-tasting night. “It’s amazing how much you can learn in such a short time,” says third-year law student Ommeed S. Sathe. “It’s more serious than other...
...result of the paper, Summers declined to comment further. BOK TO BUSINESS In the weeks since his resignation, Summers said he has been in “frequent touch” with incoming Interim President Derek C. Bok, who recently moved into a Loeb House office. Summers declined to discuss the content of those meetings with Bok, but he said the two had discussed a “whole range of issues at the University.” The president, who returned from a week-long trip to India at the end of last month, said he has focused...
...Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, Harvard students have participated in service trips to the area. These trips have offered insight into the intersection of poverty, class, and race. Nearly 70 students traveled to New Orleans over spring break with the support of the Phillips Brooks House Association alone.The week-long trips offered the students a fast-forward lesson in post-disaster uncertainty and stagnation, and one week might not have been enough time to fully grasp it. Students like Datar witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, visible across the city in everything from dysfunctional traffic lights to the blue...
...Summers said.The international fund investing developing nations’ capital reserves could charge a management fee, which could in turn be devoted to debt relief or grant assistance, the president proposed.SUMMERS ON TOURThe president’s academic lecture on international economics was just one stop on his week-long trip to India, filled with speeches and meetings intended to strengthen Harvard’s ties to the country.At a conference held by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry in New Delhi on Thursday, March 23, Summers said India could benefit from playing host to more American...
Enjoying a respite from the relentless scrutiny of his rocky tenure at Harvard’s helm, University President Lawrence H. Summers—in the midst of a week-long sojourn to South Asia—offered the local media a glimpse of his plans to deepen ties with India in his last months in office. In an interview with The Times of India—one of the country’s leading English-language dailies—Summers suggested that the University would increase its exchange programs with the world’s second most populous country...