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...William C. Kirby, the Harvard China Fund’s director, said that he intends to expand the existing office in Shanghai before acting on plans for a second office in Beijing. The envisioned Harvard Shanghai Center—a joint venture with the Business School—will be the largest University-wide facility overseas when it opens in 2010, Kirby said...
...Jack [Cogan] wants the school to be able to support what the school thinks is most important, so he’s written the rules with some flexibility,” said Law Professor William P. Alford who is also the vice-dean for international legal studies...
...Buchanan responded for the Crimson with another commanding 3-0 win, though the first two games were highly contested, until Buchanan overcame Cornell’s David Hilton 9-2 in the third set.The next three matches mirrored the beginning, with the Big Red taking three straight. Harvard freshman William Ahmed, DiSesa, and junior Franklin Cohen all dropped their contests 3-0, setting up a tense encounter in the No. 1 slot between the Crimson’s West and Will Hartigan.West displayed his finesse by beating Hartigan in three games, capping a brilliant performance with a shutout...
...young Yale junior named William Russell founded the group after spending a year in Germany among members of some of the most mystical and elite clubs in the world, including organizations that mimicked the Enlightenment-era Illuminati. Russell returned to the U.S. determined to found a secret society of his own and "tapped" Alfonso Taft, whose son would later become President William H. Taft, to be among the first members of "The Brotherhood of Death," or as it was more formally known, "The Order of the Skull and Bones." Members worshipped Eulogia, a fake goddess of eloquence, glorified pirates...
...whether a young Henry Luce (founder of Time magazine) actually laid naked in a coffin and told the tales of his early sex life during his Skull and Bones initiation, or if William F. Buckley jumped into a mud pie as part of his hazing, or whether any of the three Bush Bonesman (Prescott, H.W., and W.) really received a gift of $15,000 and the guarantee of a lifetime of financial security upon being selected - all these rumors, publicized over the years by Esquire, The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times and numerous independent book authors, might never...