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...impeccably dressed blondes spoke to a crowd of around 250 Harvard students packed into the seats of Emerson 105. 10 hours earlier, in that very same room, the seats were similarly full, as students listened to a lecture on the intricacies of market demand. This night, though, Alexandra Wilkis Wilson ’99 and Alexis M. Maybank ’97 discussed a different sort of financial asset...
...November 13, 2007, Wilson and Maybank founded Gilt Groupe, a Web site that offers invitation-only access to men’s, women’s, and children’s luxury brands. The catch? These items are only available during a 36-hour time period, where members must click and purchase before the goods run out. Daily sales, featuring items from designers like Burberry, Alexander McQueen, and Oscar de la Renta, start at noon...
Harvard sociology professor William J. Wilson, who is performing a study on the structural and cultural impact of Canada’s work, said he “could not think of a more deserving recipient” of the award...
...Here, we have kids from some of the most impoverished backgrounds and mostly with single parents, whose scores on standardized tests far exceed the overall scores in New York City,” Wilson said. “Canada is a visionary, and he is quite aware of the factors that contribute to positive outcomes for young kids...
...discovered that three Labour Members of Parliament under Wilson were considered Soviet agents. Did that come as a shock to you? It did come as a bit of a surprise. What surprised me most, however, was the degree to which getting too excited by the threat of communist subversion was not usually done by MI5 but rather by government. Labour leadership sent MI5 a list of names of 16 Labour MPs who they thought were more communist than Labour. MI5 refused to get involved because it saw this as party politics. However, the man at the top of that list...